Outbreak of sandfly fever in central Iraq, September 2007

Military Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 949-953

  Ellis, Shannon B ^a   Appenzeller, George ^a   Lee, Heechoon ^b   Mullen, Keri ^a   Swenness, Ricardo ^a   Pimentel, Guillermo ^c   Mohareb, Emad ^c   Warner, Christopher ^a  

^a Third Infantry Division   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA; BUNYAVIRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HUMAN; IRAQ; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; VECTOR CONTROL;

EID: 53849142573     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.173.10.949     Document Type: Article

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