Hospital- and laboratory-based investigations of hospitalized children with central nervous system-related symptoms to assess Japanese encephalitis virus etiology in Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu, India

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2813-2815

  Kabilan, Lalitha ^a   Ramesh, S ^b   Srinivasan, S ^c   Thenmozhi, V ^a   Muthukumaravel, S ^a   Rajendran, R ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INDIA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABORATORIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 2942525507     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.6.2813-2815.2004     Document Type: Article

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