Japanese encephalitis viral infection remains common in Japan

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 769-770

  Matsunaga, Teiichi ^a   Shoda, Mizue ^b   Konishi, Eiji ^b  

^a Eijudo ClinicKatsushika ku ^*  (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; NS1 PROTEIN, FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY TITER; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LETTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 51049115767     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31817e840a     Document Type: Letter

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