Surveillance of tularaemia in kosovo*, 2001 to 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Grunow, R ^a   Kalaveshi, A ^b   Kuhn A ^a   Mulliqi Osmani, G ^b   Ramadani, N ^b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b National Institute of Public Health   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; TULAREMIA; WAR; WATER CONTAMINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRINKING WATER; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TULAREMIA; YOUNG ADULT; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 84864368903     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.17.28.20217-en     Document Type: Article

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