Seroconversion for infectious pathogens among UK military personnel deployed to Afghanistan, 2008–2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2015-2022

  Newman, Edmund N C ^a   Johnstone, Penelope ^b   Bridge, Hannah ^b   Wright, Deborah ^a   Jameson, Lisa ^a   Bosworth, Andrew ^a   Hatch, Rebecca ^c   Hayward Karlsson, Jenny ^a   Osborne, Jane ^a   Bailey, Mark S ^d   Green, Andrew ^d   Ross, David ^e   Brooks, Tim ^a,f   Hewson, Roger ^a,f,g  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c BMS Training Defence School of Healthcare Education   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e Army Health Unit   (United Kingdom)

^f The National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections at University College London in partnership with UK Health Security Agency   (United Kingdom)

^g LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUNYAVIRIDAE; COXIELLA BURNETII; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; DIARRHEA; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; HANTAVIRUS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RICKETTSIACEAE; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SOLDIER; STAFF TRAINING; VOMITING; AFGHANISTAN; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; TRANSMISSION; WARFARE; ZOONOSES;

AFGHANISTAN; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WARFARE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84922899652     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2012.131830     Document Type: Article

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