Clinical and laboratory findings of a sandfly fever Turkey Virus outbreak in Ankara

Journal of Infection

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 375-381

  Kocak Tufan, Zeliha ^a   Weidmann, Manfred ^b   Bulut, Cemal ^a   Kinikli, Sami ^a   Hufert, Frank T ^b   Dobler, Gerhard ^c   Demiroz, Ali Pekcan ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Institute of Microbiology of the Armed Forces   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elevated liver enzymes; Phleboviruses; Sandfly fever; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LIVER ENZYME; VIRUS RNA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BUNYAVIRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPHOBIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SANDFLY FEVER; SEROLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIRUS LOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHLEBOVIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TURKEY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 81155162590     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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