Involvement of the central nervous system in dengue fever: Three serologically confirmed cases from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-39

  Vasconcelos, Pedro F C ^a,c   Travassos Da Rosa, Amélia P A ^a   Coelho, Ivo C B ^b   Menezes, Dalgimar B ^b   Travassos Da Rosa, Elizabeth S ^a   Rodrigues, Sueli G ^a   Travassos Da Rosa, Jorge F S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

CNS involvement; Dengue; Dengue IgM; Encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DENGUE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE; TIME; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DENGUE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031613758     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46651998000100008     Document Type: Article

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