Chikungunya Fever Cases Identified in the Veterans Health Administration System, 2014

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Perti, Tara ^a,b   Lucero Obusan, Cynthia A ^a   Schirmer, Patricia L ^a   Winters, Mark A ^c,d   Holodniy, Mark ^a,d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PUERTO RICO; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUERTO RICO; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84971668236     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004630     Document Type: Article

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