Human parvovirus 4 infection, Cameroon

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 680-683

  Lavoie, Myriam ^a   Sharp, Colin P ^b   Pépin, Jacques ^a   Pennington, Christopher ^b   Foupouapouognigni, Yacouba ^c   Pybus, Oliver G ^d   Njouom, Richard ^c   Simmonds, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAMEROON; COHORT STUDIES; COINFECTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84858696558     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1804.110628     Document Type: Article

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