Multiple synchronous outbreaks of Puumala virus, Germany, 2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1461-1464

  Ettinger, Jakob ^a   Hofmann, Jorg ^a   Enders, Martin ^b   Tewald, Friedemann ^b   Oehme, Rainer M ^c   Rosenfeld, Ulrike M ^d   Ali, Hanan Sheikh ^d   Schlegel, Mathias ^d   Essbauer, Sandra ^e   Osterberg, Anja ^e   Jacob, Jens ^f   Reil, Daniela ^f   Klempa, Boris ^a,g   Ulrich, Rainer G ^d   Kruger, Detlev H ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Institute of Virology   (Germany)

^c Baden Wuerttemberg State Health Office   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^e BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forestry   (Germany)

^g INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; GERMANY; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PUUMALA VIRUS INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 84865317878     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1809.111447     Document Type: Article

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