Dengue, chikungunya … and the missing entity – Zika fever: A new emerging threat

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 157-163

  Tilak, Rina ^a   Ray, Sougat ^b   Tilak, V W ^c   Mukherji, Sandip ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b SSO (Health)   (India)

^c Symbiosis International   (India)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Congenital malformities; Dengue; Neurological syndrome; Zika

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY FLUID; CHIKUNGUNYA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YELLOW FEVER; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS;

EID: 84983401065     PISSN: 03771237     EISSN: 22134743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2016.02.017     Document Type: Review

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