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No Evidence of Ntwetwe Virus Infections in Children Presenting to Kiboga Hospital, Uganda. / Edridge, Arthur W. D.; van den Brekel, Nathalie; Mukungu, Philly et al.

In: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Vol. 8, No. 1, 21, 01.01.2023.

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Edridge, AWD, van den Brekel, N, Mukungu, P, Nakayima, R, Bbosa, S, Isagara, P, Boele van Hensbroek, M, van der Hoek, L, Kayiwa, J, Lutwama, JJ & Idro, R 2023, 'No Evidence of Ntwetwe Virus Infections in Children Presenting to Kiboga Hospital, Uganda', Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, vol. 8, no. 1, 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8010021

APA

Edridge, A. W. D., van den Brekel, N., Mukungu, P., Nakayima, R., Bbosa, S., Isagara, P., Boele van Hensbroek, M., van der Hoek, L., Kayiwa, J., Lutwama, J. J., & Idro, R. (2023). No Evidence of Ntwetwe Virus Infections in Children Presenting to Kiboga Hospital, Uganda. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 8(1), [21]. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8010021

Vancouver

Edridge AWD, van den Brekel N, Mukungu P, Nakayima R, Bbosa S, Isagara P et al. No Evidence of Ntwetwe Virus Infections in Children Presenting to Kiboga Hospital, Uganda. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2023 Jan 1;8(1):21. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed8010021

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Edridge, Arthur W. D. ; van den Brekel, Nathalie ; Mukungu, Philly et al. / No Evidence of Ntwetwe Virus Infections in Children Presenting to Kiboga Hospital, Uganda. In: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2023 ; Vol. 8, No. 1.

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title = "No Evidence of Ntwetwe Virus Infections in Children Presenting to Kiboga Hospital, Uganda",
abstract = "We investigated whether Ntwetwe virus?a novel orthobunyavirus discovered in a Ugandan girl with a fatal encephalopathy?was a common reason for hospital admission for children to Kiboga hospital, Uganda. A case?control was conducted between September 2019 and September 2020, including cases with severe neurological disease and mild febrile illness, matched to a healthy control without fever. Among 143 subjects, no cases with an acute infection were identified. This result suggests that Ntwetwe virus does not cause a major burden of disease amongst children presenting to Kiboga hospital during the study period.",
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note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by an ESCMID Research Grant (to A.W.D.E), a grant from the Schumacher Kramer Foundation and a grant from PrimaGen Holding. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 by the authors.",
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