Acute childhood encephalitis and Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1674-1684

  Bitnun, Ari ^a   Ford Jones, Elizabeth Lee ^a   Petric, Martin ^c   MacGregor, Daune ^b   Heurter, Helen ^a   Nelson, Susan ^d   Johnson, Grant ^c   Richardson, Susan ^c  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (Canada)

^b Division of Neurology   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d Aventis Pasteur Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MACROLIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOGS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034970157     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320748     Document Type: Article

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