Treatment of neonatal infection caused by coxsackievirus B3

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 388-390

  Kimura, Hirokazu ^a   Minakami, Hisanori ^b   Harigaya, Akira ^c   Takeuchi, Harumitsu ^c   Tachibana, Atsushi ^c   Otsuki, Kunio ^a  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kiryu Kosei General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTION; ENTEROVIRUS; FATALITY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; MALE; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY;

COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER; MALE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033154931     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7200189     Document Type: Review

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