Fatal Fulminant Pan-Meningo-Polioencephalitis Due to West Nile Virus

Brain Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 465-472

  Omalu, Bennet I ^a   Shakir, Abdulrazek A ^a   Wang, Guoji ^a   Lipkin, W Ian ^b   Wiley, Clayton A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; GLUCOSE; PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CELL ACTIVATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FATALITY; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FULMINANT PANMENINGOPOLIOENCEPHALITIS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICROGLIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS PARTICLE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0242499489     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2003.tb00477.x     Document Type: Article

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