Toscana virus infection in American traveler returning from Sicily, 2009

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1498-1500

  Kay, Meagan K ^a   Gibney, Katherine B ^a   Riedo, Francis X ^b   Kosoy, Olga L ^a   Lanciotti, Robert S ^a   Lambert, Amy J ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Evergreen Hospital Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARBOVIRUS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHASIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; ITALY; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TOSCANA VIRUS; TRAVEL; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHYLOGENY; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956036647     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1609.100505     Document Type: Letter

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