High incidence of Japanese Encephalitis, Southern China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 672-673

  Feng, Yun ^a   Fu, Shihong ^b   Zhang, Hailin ^a   Petersen, Lyle R ^c   Zhang, Baosen ^d   Gao, Xiaoyan ^b   Yang, Weihong ^a   Zhang, Yuzhen ^a   Dao, Baoqing ^d   Li, Kunhong ^d   Li, Na ^d   Yin, Zhengliu ^e   Liu, Yonghua ^e   Nasci, Roger ^c   Wang, Huanyu ^b   Liang, Guodong ^b  

^a Yunnan Institute of Endemic Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

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

^d Dehong Prefecture Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^e Ruili Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHINA; CULEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; LETTER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN; PLEOCYTOSIS; VACCINATION;

DEHONG PREFECTURE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MAINLAND CHINA; PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; VECTOR-BORNE INFECTIONS; VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUSES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINES; MALE; MASS VACCINATION; SEASONS;

EID: 84875321247     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1904.120137     Document Type: Letter

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