Isolation of kyasanur forest disease virus from febrile patient, yunnan, china.

ABSTRACT: We recently determined that Nanjianyin virus, isolated from serum of a patient in Yunnan Province, China, in 1989, is a type of Kyasanur Forest disease virus. Results of a 1987-1990 seroepidemiologic investigation in Yunnan Province had shown that residents of the Hengduan Mountain region had been infected with Nanjianyin virus.

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2657630 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature