Aseptic meningitis in Germany associated with echovirus type 13

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Diedrich, Sabine ^a   Schreier, Eckart ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHO VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GERMANY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS TYPING; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; GERMANY; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC;

EID: 19044377361     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-1-14     Document Type: Article

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