Dengue fever caused by dengue virus serotype - 3 (subtype-III) in arural area of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 132, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 339-342

  Paramasivan, R ^a   Dhananjeyan, K J ^a   Victor Jerald Leo, S ^a   Muniaraj, M ^a   Thenmozhi, V ^a   Rajendran, R ^a   Tewari, S C ^a   Arunachalam, N ^a   Varatharaj, M ^b   Victor, T John ^b   Charles, Janshi ^c   Ilango, S ^b   Tyagi, B K ^a  

^a Centre for Research in Medical Entomology ICMR   (India)

^b Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine ^*  (India)

^c MADURAI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 3; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL AREA; BIOLOGY; BLOOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DENGUE VIRUS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPING;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

EID: 77957070627     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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