Imported dengue hemorrhagic fever, Europe

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1329-1330

  Delgado, María Jesús Pinazo ^a,b,c,h   Gutierrez, José Muñoz ^a,b,c   Radic, Ljiljana Betica ^d   Maretic, Tomislav ^e   Zekan, Sime ^e   Avšič Županc, Tatjana ^f   Aymar, Ethel Sequeira ^g   Trilla, Antoni ^a,b,c   Brustenga, Joaquim Gascon ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^d Dubrovnik General Hospital   (Croatia)

^e Croatia   (Croatia)

^f Institute of Microbiology and Immunology   (Slovenia)

^g Centro de Atención Primaria del Sector del Eixample CAPSE   (Spain)

^h NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENGUE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DENGUE VIRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; TRAVEL;

EID: 48749098082     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1408.080068     Document Type: Letter

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