Rift Valley Fever in Southwestern Saudi Arabia: A sero-epidemiological study seven years after the outbreak of 2000-2001

Acta Tropica

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-116

  Al Azraqi, Tarik A ^a   El Mekki, Awad A ^a   Mahfouz, Ahmed A ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Rift Valley Fever; Saudi Arabia; Seroepidemiology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; VIRAL DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

SAUDI ARABIA;

ANIMALIA; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 84861347080     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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