O’nyong-nyong virus infection imported to Europe from Kenya by a traveler

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1766-1767

  Tappe, Dennis ^a   Kapaun, Annette ^b   Emmerich, Petra ^a   de Mendonca Campos, Renata ^c   Cadar, Daniel ^a   Günther, Stephan ^a,d   Schmidt Chanasit, Jonas ^a,d  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d Partner Site Hamburg Luebeck Borstel Riems   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AEDES AEGYPTI; ARBOVIRUS; ARTHRALGIA; CASE REPORT; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; KENYA; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; O NYONG NYONG FEVER; PRURITUS; RASH; TRAVEL; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; O NYONG NYONG VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; KENYA; MIDDLE AGED; O'NYONG-NYONG VIRUS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84907292144     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2010.140823     Document Type: Letter

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