Congenital lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection: An underdiagnosed disease

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 652-655

  Enders, Gisela ^a,c   Varho Göbel, Marita ^a   Löhler, Jürgen ^b   Terletskaia Ladwig, Elena ^a   Eggers, Maren ^a  

^a Inst Virologie Infektiologie E   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c Institut fur Virologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus; Prenatal infection

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TWINS;

EID: 0345188828     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199907000-00020     Document Type: Article

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