Fatal encephalitis caused by concomitant infection with tick-borne encephalitis virus and borrelia burgdorferi

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 392-396

  Oksi, Jarmo ^a,b,c,d   Viljanen, Matti K ^a,b,c,d   Kalimo, Hannu ^a,b,c,d   Peltonen, Reijo ^a,b,c,d   Marttila, Reijo ^a,b,c,d   Salomaa, Pirkko ^a,b,c,d   Nikoskelainen, Jukka ^a,b,c,d   Budka, Herbert ^a,b,c,d   Halonen, Pekka ^a,b,c,d  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c TURKU UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL GENE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FINLAND; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IXODES; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SUPERINFECTION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTICS, COMBINED; CASE REPORT; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HUMAN; IMIPENEM; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFAMPIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0027533644     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clind/16.3.392     Document Type: Article

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