Familial cases of severe measles pneumonia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 670-674

  Ito, Isao ^a,b   Ishida, Tadashi ^a   Hashimoto, Toru ^a   Arita, Machiko ^a   Osawa, Makoto ^a   Tsukayama, Choutatsu ^a  

^a KURASHIKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epstein Barr virus; Giant cell pneumonia; Methylprednisolone; Transbronchial lung biopsy; Transmission

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0034243952     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.670     Document Type: Article

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