Dengue virus surveillance for early warning, Singapore

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 847-849

  Lee, Kim Sung ^a   Lai, Yee Ling ^a   Lo, Sharon ^a   Barkham, Timothy ^b   Aw, Pauline ^c   Ooi, Peng Lim ^d   Tai, Ji Choong ^e   Hibberd, Martin ^c   Johansson, Patrik ^f   Khoo, Seow Poh ^e   Ng, Lee Ching ^a  

^a Environmental Health Institute   (Singapore)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

^f DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGAPORE; VIRUS TYPING;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SINGAPORE; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 77951169874     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1605.091006     Document Type: Article

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