Mayaro virus infection in traveler returning from Amazon Basin, Northern Peru

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 695-696

  Neumayr, Andreas ^a   Gabriel, Martin ^b   Fritz, Jasmin ^a   Günther, Stephan ^b   Hatz, Christoph ^a   Schmidt Chanasit, Jonas ^b   Blum, Johannes ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; CASE REPORT; CHILL; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFLAMMATION; JOINT STIFFNESS; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALAISE; MALE; MAYARO VIRUS INFECTION; MYALGIA; PERU; POLYARTHRITIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; TRAVEL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

ADULT; ALPHAVIRUS; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ARTHRALGIA; HUMANS; MALE; PERU; TRAVEL;

EID: 84858667128     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1804.111717     Document Type: Letter

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