Reemergence of chikungunya virus in bo, sierra leone

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1108-1110

  Ansumana, Rashid ^a,b,c   Jacobsen, Kathryn H ^d   Leski, Tomasz A ^e   Covington, Andrea L ^b   Bangura, Umaru ^b   Hodges, Mary H ^c   Lin, Baochuan ^e   Bockarie, Alfred S ^a,b   Lamin, Joseph M ^b   Bockarie, Moses J ^c   Stenger, David A ^e  

^a Njala University   (United States)

^b Mercy Hospital Bo   (United States)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHILD; DISEASE RE-EMERGENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIERRA LEONE;

AFRICA; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CHIKV; REEMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SIERRA LEONE; VIRUSES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, IMMUNOLOGIC; SIERRA LEONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879174828     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1907.121563     Document Type: Article

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