Acute encephalitis due to human herpesvirus 6

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 397-398

  Moschettini, Donatella ^a   Balestri, Paolo ^b   Fois, Alberto ^b   Valensin, Pier Egisto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PHENOBARBITAL;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; EXANTHEMA SUBITUM; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IRRITABILITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SOMNOLENCE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS GENE;

EID: 0029812831     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.2.397     Document Type: Article

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