Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome: A clinical description of 17 patients with a newly recognized disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 330, Issue 14, 1994, Pages 949-955

  Duchin, Jeffrey S ^a   Koster, Frederick T ^b   Peters, C J ^a   Simpson, Gary L ^b,c   Tempest, Bruce ^d   Zaki, Sherif R ^a   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^a   Rollin, Pierre E ^a   Nichol, Stuart ^a   Umland, Edith T ^e   Moolenaar, Ronald L ^a   Reef, Susan E ^a   Nolte, Kurt B ^e   Gallaher, Margaret M ^c   Butler, Jay C ^a   Breiman, Robert F ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Argentina)

^d INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HANTAVIRUS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFECTION; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EDEMA; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; SYNDROME;

EID: 0028215049     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199404073301401     Document Type: Article

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