An unexpected outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in the Chugoku district of Japan, 2002

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 63-66

  Ayukawa, Ryusuke ^g   Fujimoto, Hiroshi ^g   Ayabe, Mitsuyoshi ^g   Shoji, Hiroshi ^g   Matsui, Ryukichi ^a   Iwata, Yuko ^b   Fukuda, Hitoshi ^b   Ochi, Kazuhide ^c   Noda, Koichi ^c   Ono, Yoichi ^d   Sakai, Kanichi ^d   Takehisa, Yasushi ^e   Yasui, Kotaro ^f  

^a Tsuwanokyouzon Hospital   (Japan)

^b Masuda Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^c National Hiroshima Hospital   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION OKAYAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e Tottori Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^f TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^g KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALPHA INTERFERON; AZAURIDINE; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMIPARESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MALE; MENINGISM; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUADRIPLEGIA; RIGIDITY; SEIZURE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMUS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2542432076     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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