Arenavirus Infections

Tropical Infectious Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 449-461

  Enría, Delia A ^a   Mills, James N ^b   Bausch, Dan ^c,d   Shieh, Wun Ju ^e   Peters, C J ^f  

^a Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas Dr Julio I Maiztegui   (Argentina)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-7020-3935-5.00068-9     Document Type: Chapter

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