Analysis of an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in college students in Xi'An, China

Viruses

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 507-515

  Ma, Chaofeng ^a   Wang, Zengguo ^a   Li, Shen ^b   Xing, Yuan ^a   Wu, Rui ^a   Wei, Jing ^b   Nawaz, Muhammad ^c   Tian, Huaiyu ^d   Xu, Bing ^d   Wang, Jingjun ^b   Yu, Pengbo ^b  

^a Xi'an Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b Shaanxi Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hantaan virus; Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome; Outbreak; Xi'An city

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VACCINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; THERAPY DELAY; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RATS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STUDENTS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893243452     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v6020507     Document Type: Article

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