Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in a chilean patient with recent travel in Bolivia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-95

  Espinoza, Ricardo ^a   Vial, Pablo ^a,b   Noriega, Luis M ^a,b   Johnson, Angela ^c   Nichol, Stuart T ^c   Rollin, Pierre E ^c   Wells, Rachel ^c   Zaki, Sherif ^c   Reynolds, Enrique ^a   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; BOLIVIA; CASE REPORT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RODENT; SELF REPORT; SERODIAGNOSIS; TRAVEL;

EID: 0031854272     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0401.980112     Document Type: Review

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