Clinical presentation and laboratory findings for the first autochthonous cases of dengue fever in Madeira Island, Portugal, October 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Alves, M J ^a   Fernandes, P L ^b   Amaro, F ^a   Osorio H ^a   Luz, T ^a   Parreira, P ^a   Andrade, G ^b   Ze Ze L ^a   Zeller, H ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^b Hospital Dr Nelio Mendonca   (Portugal)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORTUGAL; RASH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84873636043     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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