An outbreak of acute febrile illness caused by sandfly fever sicilian virus in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, 2011

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1250-1253

  Woyessa, Abyot Bekele ^a   Omballa, Victor ^a   Wang, David ^a,b   Lambert, Amy ^a   Waiboci, Lilian ^a   Ayele, Workenesh ^a   Ahmed, Abdi ^a   Abera, Negga Asamene ^a   Cao, Song ^a   Ochieng, Melvin ^a   Montgomery, Joel M ^a   Jima, Daddi ^a   Fields, Barry ^a  

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

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BUNYAVIRUS; DENGUE; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS G; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SANDFLY FEVER; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY;

SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS;

BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84918823872     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0299     Document Type: Article

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