Three cases of imported dengue virus infection from Madeira to Belgium, 2012

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 344-348

  Cnops, Lieselotte ^a   Franco, Leticia ^b   Van Meensel, Britt ^c   Van Den Ende, Jef ^a   Paz Sanchez Seco, Maria ^b   Van Esbroeck, Marjan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c Medisch Centrum Huisartsen   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; INSECT REPELLENT; PARACETAMOL; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CASE REPORT; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DENGUE VIRUS 1; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; SOUTH AMERICAN; SYMPTOM; TRAVEL; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO; PORTUGAL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BELGIUM; CULICIDAE; DENGUE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; TRAVEL;

EID: 84906937541     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12113     Document Type: Article

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