First case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902.

Heraud, J. M.; Hommel, D.; Hulin, A.; Deubel, V.; Poveda, J. D.; Sarthou, J. L.; Talarmin, A.

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First case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902.

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1999 May-Jun
By Heraud, J. M. ; Hommel, D. ; Hulin, A. ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Heraud, J. M. ; Hommel, D. ; Hulin, A. ; Deubel, V. ; Poveda, J. D. ; Sarthou, J. L. ; Talarmin, A.
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The first case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902 was reported in March 1998. The yellow fever virus genome was detected in postmortem liver biopsies by seminested polymerase chain reaction. Sequence analysis showed that this strain was most closely related to strains from Brazil and Ecuador.
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Dna, Viral Fatal Outcome Female Humans Liver Phylogeny Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Sequence Analysis, Dna Yellow Fever Yellow Fever Virus
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Emerg Infect Dis. 5(3):429-432.
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Journal Article
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French Guiana
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5
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3
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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