Chikungunya virus, Southeastern France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 910-913

  Grandadam, Marc ^a   Caro, Valérie ^a   Plumet, Sébastien ^b   Thiberge, Jean Michel ^a   Souarès, Yvan ^c   Failloux, Anna Bella ^a   Tolou, Hugues J ^b   Budelot, Michel ^d   Cosserat, Didier ^d   Leparc Goffart, Isabelle ^b   Desprès, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE BIOMÉDICALE DES ARMÉES   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^d Private Consulting Rooms   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHILD; FEMALE; FEVER; FRANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79955763818     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.101873     Document Type: Article

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