Acute exacerbation of autoimmune liver disease associated with hantaviral infection

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-83

  Yotsuyanagi, Hiroshi ^a,c   Koike, Kazuhiko ^a   Meng, Gaoyuan ^a   Yasuda, Kiyomi ^b   Ogata, Itsuro ^a   Kimura, Satoshi ^a   Ohkubo, Akiyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0031808615     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/003655498750002358     Document Type: Article

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