Lassa fever encephalopathy: Lassa virus in cerebrospinal fluid but not in serum

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 345-349

  Günther, Stephan ^a   Weisner, Boye ^c   Roth, Andreas ^d   Grewing, Thomas ^b   Asper, Marcel ^a   Drosten, Christian ^a   Emmerich, Petra ^a   Petersen, Jochen ^c   Wilczek, Martin ^d   Schmitz, Herbert ^a  

^a Bernhard Nocht Institut für Tropenmedizin

^b Artus Gesellschaft für Molekularbiologische Diagnostik und Entwicklung mbH   (Germany)

^c Dr Horst Sehmidt Kliniken   (Germany)

^d Life Camp Clinic   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LASSA VIRUS; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RNA SEQUENCE; SEIZURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRAVEL; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFUSION; FEVER; HUMANS; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIGERIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEIZURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0035426003     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322033     Document Type: Article

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