Acute meningitis owing to phlebotomus fever toscana virus imported to France

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 295-296

  Defuentes, Gilles ^a   Rapp, Christophe ^a   Imbert, Patrick ^a   Durand, Jean Paul ^b   Debord, Thierry ^a  

^a SERVICE D ENDOCRINOLOGIE   (France)

^b SERVICE DE SANTÉ DES ARMÉES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BUNYAVIRUS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; TRAVEL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 30444442157     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7060.2005.12512     Document Type: Article

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