An outbreak of dengue fever in St. Croix (US virgin islands), 2005

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Mohammed, Hamish ^a,b   Ramos, Mary ^a,c   Armstrong, Julie ^d,e   Muñoz Jordán, Jorge ^a   Arnold Lewis, Kathleen O ^f   Ayala, Aurimar ^a   Clark, Gary G ^g   Tull, Eugene S ^d   Beatty, Mark E ^h  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (Puerto Rico)

^b ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d St Croix   (United States)

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

^f Governor Juan F Luis Hospital   (United States)

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^h Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

DENGUE VIRUS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149425376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013729     Document Type: Article

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