No evidence of dengue virus circulation in rural Gabon

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1568-1569

  Pourrut, Xavier ^a,b   Nkoghé, Dieudonné ^a,b,c   Gonzalez, Jean Paul ^a,b   Leroy, Eric ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

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

^c Ministère de la Santé Publique   (Gabon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 1; DENGUE VIRUS 2; DENGUE VIRUS 3; DENGUE VIRUS 4; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GABON; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPE; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GABON; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MONKEY DISEASES; PETS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 79960877995     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1708.110153     Document Type: Letter

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