Encephalitis and encephalopathy associated with an influenza epidemic in Japan

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 512-517

  Morishima, Tsuneo ^a   Togashi, Takehiro ^b   Yokota, Shyumpei ^c   Okuno, Yoshinobu ^d   Miyazaki, Chiaki ^e   Tashiro, Masato ^f   Okabe, Nobuhiko ^f  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Osaka Institute of Public Hygiene   (Japan)

^e Fukuoka Center for Handicapped Children   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVULSION; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0036720453     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341407     Document Type: Article

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