Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Southern Chile

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1438-1443

  Riquelme, Raúl ^a,d   Riquelme, Mauricio ^a   Torres, Antoni ^b   Rioseco, Maria Luisa ^a   Vergara, José Antonio ^a   Scholz, Luis ^c   Carriel, Andrea ^a  

^a Hospital Regional de Puerto Montt   (Chile)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^c Hospital Regional de Osorno   (Chile)

^d NONE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; CHILE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MORTALITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0242292072     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0911.020798     Document Type: Article

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