Significant increase in travel-associated dengue fever in Germany

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 155-159

  Allwinn, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dengue fever diagnostics; Increasing dengue fever; Travel medicine

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; TRAVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961209425     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: 14321831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-011-0185-2     Document Type: Article

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