A man with fatal Lassa fever following a stay in Sierra Leone;Een man met fatale lassa-koorts na een verblijf in Sierra Leone

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 146, Issue 46, 2002, Pages 2201-2204

  Veldkamp, P J ^a   Schippers, E F ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LASSA FEVER; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIERRA LEONE;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBAVIRIN; RNA, VIRAL; SIERRA LEONE; TRAVEL;

EID: 0037121297     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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