Enterovirus infections: Diagnosis and treatment

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-69

  Sawyer, Mark H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PLECONARIL;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; NEWBORN INFECTION; PERICARDITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; OXADIAZOLES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEPSIS;

EID: 0035134154     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-200102000-00012     Document Type: Review

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