Puumala virus infection with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and multiorgan failure [2]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 603-605

  Krause, Robert ^a   Aberle, Stephen ^b   Haberl, Renate ^a   Daxböck, Florian ^b   Wenisch, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEVER; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; LETTER; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA EFFUSION; PUUMALA VIRUS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0038077297     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0905.020405     Document Type: Letter

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