With regard about the case of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika co-infection in a patient from Colombia

Journal of Infection and Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 687-688

  Faccini Martínez, Álvaro A ^a   Botero García, Carlos A ^b   Benítez Baracaldo, Fabián C ^a   Pérez Díaz, Carlos E ^a,c  

^a Servicios y Asesorías en Infectología SAI   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MILITAR NUEVA GRANADA   (Colombia)

^c Hospital Clínica de Marly   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; CHIKUNGUNYA; COLOMBIA; CONJUNCTIVAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CROSS REACTION; DENGUE; HUMAN; LETTER; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MIXED INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS;

CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; COINFECTION; COLOMBIA; DENGUE; HUMANS; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84961775087     PISSN: 18760341     EISSN: 1876035X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2016.01.001     Document Type: Letter

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