Outbreak of dengue and chikungunya fevers, Toamasina, Madagascar, 2006

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1135-1137

  Ratsitorahina, Mahery ^a   Harisoa, Julie ^b   Ratovonjato, Jocelyn ^a   Biacabe, Sophie ^b   Reynes, Jean Marc ^a   Zeller, Hervé ^c   Raoelina, Yolande ^d   Talarmin, Antoine ^a   Richard, Vincent ^a   Soares, Jean Louis ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

^b Direction Provinciale de la Santé ^*  (Madagascar)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d Service de la Lutte Contre les Maladies Emergentes et Réé mergentes   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MADAGASCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MADAGASCAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 46349102735     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1407.071521     Document Type: Article

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