Re-Emergence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in central Africa

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Grard, Gilda ^a   Drexler, Jan Felix ^b   Fair, Joseph ^c   Muyembe, Jean Jacques ^d   Wolfe, Nathan D ^c,e   Drosten, Christian ^b   Leroy, Eric M ^a,f  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Global Viral Forecasting Initiative   (United States)

^d Direction of the institute   (Democratic Republic Congo)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL AFRICA; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIRUS STRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NAIRO VIRUS; PHYLOGENY;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80055071676     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001350     Document Type: Article

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