Polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis and identification of distinct variants of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in the United Arab Emirates

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 190-196

  Schwarz, Tino F ^a   Nsanze, Herbert ^b   Longson, Maurice ^b   Nitschko, Hans ^c   Gilch, Sabine ^c   Shurie, Hassan ^b   Ameen, Abdulmajeed ^b   Zahir, Abdul R M ^b   Acharya, Upendra G ^b   Jager, Gundula ^c  

^a Stiftung Juliusspital   (Germany)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; OVIS ARIES; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 9544224140     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1996.55.190     Document Type: Article

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