Serological and Virological Evidence of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus Circulation in the Human Population of Borno State, Northeastern Nigeria

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Bukbuk, David N ^a   Dowall, Stuart D ^b   Lewandowski, Kuiama ^b   Bosworth, Andrew ^b   Baba, Saka S ^a   Varghese, Anitha ^b   Watson, Robert J ^b   Bell, Andrew ^b   Atkinson, Barry ^b   Hewson, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI   (Nigeria)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NIGERIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEROPREVALENCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BOVINE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NAIROVIRUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CATTLE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NIGERIA; PHYLOGENY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 85008601469     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005126     Document Type: Article

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