Nipah virus infection, an emerging paramyxoviral zoonosis

Springer Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 215-228

  Wong, K T ^a   Shieh, W J ^b   Zaki, S R ^b   Tan, C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD VESSEL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA VIRUS; KIDNEY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER; LUNG; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MICROSCOPY; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; SWINE; SYNCYTIUM; TARGET ORGAN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BAT; BRAIN; DISEASE CARRIER; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARAMYXOVIRINAE; PROGNOSIS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0036430920     PISSN: 03444325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-002-0106-y     Document Type: Review

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