Laboratory diagnosis of subacute and acute encephalitis probably of viral origin: Seven years experience;Diagnostico de laboratorio en casos de encefalitis aguda y subaguda de probable etiologia viral: Experiencia en 7 anos

Neurologia

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 381-383

  Echevarria J M ^a   Casas, I ^a   De Ory, F ^a   Tenorio, A ^a   Echevarria C ^a   Lozano, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Etiology; Herpesviruses; Laboratory diagnosis; Measles; Viral encephalitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; AGED; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; MIDDLE AGED; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031265474     PISSN: 02134853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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