Emerging and re-emerging epidemic encephalitis: A tale of two viruses

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 313-318

  Wong, K T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Enterovirus 71; Epidemic encephalitis; Nipah virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ASIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DIENCEPHALON; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFARCTION; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIA; JAPAN; MALAYSIA; NIPAH; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGAPORE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SWINE; SYNCYTIUM; TAIWAN; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE INJURY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULITIS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT, VIRAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY; MALAYSIA; MICROCIRCULATION; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARAMYXOVIRINAE; SINGAPORE; SWINE; TAIWAN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033862981     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2990.2000.00256.x     Document Type: Review

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