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Outbreak of jaundice and hemorrhagic fever in the Southeast of Brazil in 2001: detection and molecular characterization of yellow fever virus.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Dec 2002
de Filippis A M B, Nogueira R M R, Schatzmayr H G, Tavares D S, Jabor A V, Diniz S C M, Oliveira J C, Moreira E, Miagostovich M P, Costa E V, Galler R
Abstract excerpt
Between January and March 2001, an outbreak of jaundice and hemorrhagic fever occurred in the state of Minas Gerais, Southeast region of Brazil, in which a mortality rate of 53% was reported. Seroconversion, virus isolation, histopathological and immunohistochemical findings, and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) identified yellow fever virus (YFV) as the etiological agent responsible for...
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