Short report: Dengue-3 outbreak in Paraguay: Investigations using capillary blood samples on filter paper

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 685-687

  Matheus, Severine ^a   Meynard, Jean Baptiste ^b   Lavergne, Anne ^b   Girod, Romain ^b   Moua, David ^a   Labeau, Bhety ^a   Dussart, Philippe ^a   Lacoste, Vincent ^b   Deparis, Xavier ^c  

^a Centre National de Reference des Arbovirus Cayenne   (French Guiana)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^c SERVICE DE SANTÉ DES ARMÉES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAPILLARY BLOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 3; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; PARAGUAY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPE; VIRUS DETECTION; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DENGUE VIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PAPER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; PAPER; PARAGUAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 55849113361     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.79.685     Document Type: Article

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