The excess burden of cytomegalovirus in African American communities: A geospatial analysis

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Lantos, Paul M ^a   Permar, Sallie R ^a   Hoffman, Kate ^b   Swamy, Geeta K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Cytomegalovirus; Disparity; Epidemiology; Geographic information system

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CROWDING (AREA); CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION DENSITY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 85014233425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofv180     Document Type: Article

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