Cytomegalovirus-associated acute transverse myelitis in immunocompetent adults

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1187-1190

  Fux, C A ^a   Pfister, S ^a   Nohl, F ^b   Zimmerli, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Immunocompetent; Transversemyelitis

Indexed keywords

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERESTHESIA; HYPESTHESIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MYELITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS;

EID: 0347600416     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2003.00796.x     Document Type: Article

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