Prevalence of sand fly fever, West Nile, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and leptospirosis antibodies in Pakistani military personnel

Military Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 149-153

  Bryan, Joe P ^a   Iqbal, Mohammed ^b   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^c   Ahmed, Aftab ^b   Fred Duncan, J ^a   Awan, Bashir ^b   Krieg, Richard E ^a   Riaz, Mohammed ^b   Leduc, James W ^c   Nabi, Shahid ^b   Shuaib Qureshi, M ^b   Malik, Iftikhar A ^b   Legters, Llewellyn J ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^c U States Army Med Res Inst I   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BUNYAVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HANTAVIRUS; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS NON A NON B; HUMAN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOLDIER; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 9044239669     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/161.3.149     Document Type: Article

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