Reemergence of rift valley fever, Mauritania, 2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 300-303

  Faye, Ousmane ^a   Ba, Hampathé ^b   Ba, Yamar ^a   Freire, Caio C M ^c   Faye, Oumar ^a   Ndiaye, Oumar ^a   Elgady, Isselmou O ^b   Zanotto, Paolo M A ^c   Diallo, Mawlouth ^a   Sall, Amadou A ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^b Institut National de Recherche en Sante Publique   (Mauritania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; FIELD INVESTIGATIONS; HUMAN; MAURITANIA; MOSQUITOES; OUTBREAK; REEMERGENCE; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUSES; VIRUS LINEAGE; VIRUSES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CAMELS; CULEX; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GOATS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MAURITANIA; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SHEEP; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84892569682     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2002.130996     Document Type: Article

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