Short report: Outbreak of chikungunya fever, Dakshina Kannada District, South India, 2008

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 751-754

  Manimunda, Sathya P ^a,d   Sugunan, Attayur P ^a,d   Rai, Subhodh K ^b,d   Vijayachari, Paluru ^a,d   Shriram, Ananganallur N ^a,d   Sharma, Sameer ^a,d   Muruganandam, Nagarajan ^a,d   Chaitanya, Itta K ^a,d   Guruprasad, Dev R ^a,d   Sudeep, Anakkathil B ^c,d  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

^b Department of District Health and Family Welfare ^*  (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

^d Primary Health Centre   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTION; BLOOD; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEASON; TIME;

CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958073029     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0433     Document Type: Article

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