Enteroviral meningitis in a pediatric hospital: Experience in 1996;Meningitis por enterovirus en un hospital pediatrico: Experiencia en 1996

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 135-137

  Valdezate, Silvia ^a   Mesa, Francisco ^a   Otero, Joaquín R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Enteroviral meningitis; Enterovirus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; ECHO VIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PLEOCYTOSIS; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS TYPING;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; SEASONS; SEROTYPING; SPAIN; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

EID: 0031955743     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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