Rift valley fever virus seroprevalence in human rural populations of Gabon

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Pourrut, Xavier ^a,b   Nkoghé, Dieudonné ^b   Souris, Marc ^c   Paupy, Christophe ^b,d   Paweska, Janusz ^e   Padilla, Cindy ^b   Moussavou, Ghislain ^b   Leroy, Eric M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FOREST; GABON; HUMAN; LAKE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOSQUITO; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SAVANNA; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RIFT VALLEY FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; GABON; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957904617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000763     Document Type: Article

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