Emergence of chikungunya seropositivity in healthy Malaysian adults residing in outbreak-free locations: Chikungunya seroprevalence results from the Malaysian Cohort

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Azami, Nor Azila Muhammad ^a   Salleh, Sharifah Azura ^b   Shah, Shamsul Azhar ^b   Neoh, Hui min ^a   Othman, Zulhabri ^a,c   Zakaria, Syed Zulkifli Syed ^a,c   Jamal, Rahman ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA MEDICAL CENTER   (Malaysia)

^c Malaysian Cohort   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adult; Chikungunya virus; Malaysia Epidemiology; Rural; Seroprevalence study

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEROPREVALENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84873267594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-67     Document Type: Article

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