Chikungunya outbreak in Guangdong province, China, 2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 493-495

  Wu, De ^a   Wu, Jie ^a   Zhang, Qiaoli ^b   Zhong, Haojie ^a   Ke, Changwen ^a   Deng, Xiaoling ^a   Guan, Dawei ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Zhang, Yonghui ^a   Zhou, Huiqiong ^a   He, Jianfeng ^a   Li, Linghui ^a   Yang, Xingfen ^a  

^a SHENZHEN CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Dongguan Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AFRICA; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHILD; CHINA; CLADISTICS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DENGUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIAN OCEAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPTOM; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863263956     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1803.110034     Document Type: Article

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