The Caribbean response to chikungunya

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1039-1040

  Olowokure, Babatunde ^a   Francis, Lorraine ^a   Polson Edwards, Karen ^a   Nasci, Roger ^b   Quénel, Philippe ^c   Aldighieri, Sylvain ^d   Rousset, Dominique ^c   Gutierrez, Cristina ^a   Ramon Pardo, Pilar ^d   Santos, Thais dos ^e   Hospedales, C James ^a  

^a CARIBBEAN PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^d PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^e PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Barbados)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; NOTE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRAVEL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; INFECTION CONTROL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES;

CARIBBEAN REGION; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS;

EID: 84908285089     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70948-X     Document Type: Note

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