Outbreak of aseptic meningitis due to ECHO-9 in Northern Kyushu Island in the summer of 1997

Kurume Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-104

  Akasu, Yuko ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ECHO 9; Meningitis; Sequence

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CHILD; ECHO VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; VIROLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECHOVIRUS 9; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEASONS;

EID: 0032602362     PISSN: 00235679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2739/kurumemedj.46.97     Document Type: Article

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