Nationwide survey of the annual prevalence of viral and other neurological infections in Japanese inpatients

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 894-900

  Kamei, Satoshi ^a   Takasu, Toshiaki ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Meningitis; Myelitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYELITIS; PREVALENCE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MENINGITIS; MYELITIS; PREVALENCE; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0034327898     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.894     Document Type: Article

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