Imported lassa fever, pennsylvania, usa, 2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1598-1600

  Amorosa, Valerianna ^a,b   MacNeil, Adam ^c   McConnell, Ryan ^a   Patel, Ami ^c,d   Dillon, Katherine E ^a   Hamilton, Keith ^a   Erickson, Bobbie Rae ^c   Campbell, Shelley ^c   Knust, Barbara ^c   Cannon, Deborah ^c   Miller, David ^c   Manning, Craig ^c   Rollin, Pierre E ^c   Nichol, Stuart T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^d Philadelphia Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; ANKLE PAIN; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILL; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HUMAN; KNEE PAIN; LASSA FEVER; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARYNGITIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN DISEASE; SORE THROAT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; LIBERIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRAVEL;

EID: 77958542557     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1610.100774     Document Type: Article

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