Probable importation of dengue virus type 4 to Angola from Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1775-1776

  Meltzer, Eyal ^a,b   Lustig, Yaniv ^c   Glichinsky, Ora ^c   Steiner, Florian ^d   Schwartz, Eli ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 1; DENGUE VIRUS 4; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPORIATRICS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MIGRANT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANGOLA; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DENGUE VIRUS; GENETICS; GERMANY; ISRAEL; TRAVEL; VIROLOGY;

ANGOLA; BRAZIL; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; GERMANY; HUMANS; ISRAEL; PHYLOGENY; TRAVEL;

EID: 84907285781     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2010.140609     Document Type: Letter

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