Incidence rate for hantavirus infections without pulmonary syndrome, Panama

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1936-1939

  Armien, Blas ^a   Pascale, Juan M ^a   Munoz, Carlos ^b   Lee, Sang Joon ^c   Choi, Kook L ^c,d   Avila, Mario ^b   Broce, Candida ^b   Armien, Anibal G ^e   Gracia, Fernando ^f   Hjelle, Brian ^g   Koster, Frederick ^h  

^a Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Research   (Panama)

^b Ministry of Health   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d Inje University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f Santo Tomas Hospital   (Panama)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^h LOVELACE RESPIRATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANDES VIRUS; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84930478627     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1710.101717     Document Type: Article

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