Hunting in the rainforest and mayaro virus infection: An emerging alphavirus in Ecuador

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 317-323

  Izurieta, Ricardo O ^a,b   MacAluso, Maurizio ^c   Watts, Douglas M ^d   Tesh, Robert B ^d   Guerra, Bolivar ^e   Cruz, Ligia M ^a   Galwankar, Sagar ^a   Vermund, Sten H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Derecho Constitucional   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^e Ecuadorian Armed Forces Hospital HG 1 ^*  (Ecuador)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Amazon; Ecuador; Mayaro virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; ALPHA VIRUS; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL HUNTING; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECUADOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION RISK; MAYARO ALPHAVIRUS; MAYARO VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84855185302     PISSN: 0974777X     EISSN: 09748245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-777X.91049     Document Type: Article

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