An outbreak of chikungunya in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand in 2011

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 886-889

  Gurav, Y K ^a   Gopalkrishna, V ^a   Shah, P S ^a   Patil, D R ^a   Mishra, M ^b   Paingankar, M S ^a   Singh, A ^a   Sathe, P S ^a   Mishra, A C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

^b Tata Main Hospital ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VALINE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INDIA; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84872076212     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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