Exploring the origin and potential for spread of the 2013 dengue outbreak in luanda, Angola

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sessions, October M ^a   Khan, Kamran ^b   Hou, Yan'an ^a   Meltzer, Eyal ^c,d   Quam, Mikkel ^e   Schwartz, Eli ^c   Gubler, Duane J ^a   Wilder Smith, Annelies ^f,g  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^g UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Angola; Dengue; Dengue in Africa; Dengue sequence; International travel

Indexed keywords

ANGOLA; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL; ARTICLE; DENGUE IN AFRICA; DENGUE SEQUENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL; STATISTICS;

ANGOLA; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRAVEL;

ANGOLA; DENGUE; DENGUE IN AFRICA; DENGUE SEQUENCE; INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL;

EID: 84886263278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.21822     Document Type: Article

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