Epidemic outbreak of meningitis due to Echovirus type 13 on the island of Gran Canaria (Spain);Brote epidémico de meningitis por virus echo serotipo 13 en la isla de Gran Canaria

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 340-345

  Pérez, Carmen ^a   Pena, María José ^a   Molina, Lourdes ^a   Trallero, Gloria ^b   García, Amós ^c   Bernardo Lafarga, Fayna Álamo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c Servicio Canario de Salud   (Spain)

Author keywords

Echovirus 13; Meningitis; Outbreak; Viral culture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBROBLAST; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; SEROTYPING; SEX RATIO; SPAIN; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

EID: 0141458233     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13050524     Document Type: Article

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