Chikungunya fever outbreak, Bhutan, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1681-1684

  Wangchuk, Sonam ^a   Chinnawirotpisan, Piyawan ^b   Dorji, Tshering ^a   Tobgay, Tashi ^a   Dorji, Tandin ^a   Yoon, In Kyu ^b   Fernandez, Stefan ^b  

^a Ministry of Health   (Bhutan)

^b ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN E1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BHUTAN; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHILD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; RASH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ALPHAVIRUS; BHUTAN; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; OUTBREAK; RE-EMERGING DISEASE; TOGAVIRIDAE; VIRUSES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BHUTAN; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884245267     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1910.130453     Document Type: Article

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