Rift Valley Fever Encephalitis [8]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 554-555

  Alrajhi, Abdulrahman A ^a   Al Semari, Abdulaziz ^a   Al Watban, Jehad ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HYDROXYUREA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETINITIS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; SYMPTOM; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS REPLICATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 1542286952     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1003.020817     Document Type: Letter

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