West Nile Virus disease: A descriptive study of 228 patients hospitalized in a 4-county region of Colorado in 2003

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1234-1240

  Bode, Amy V ^a,d   Sejvar, James J ^c   Pape, W John ^b   Campbell, Grant L ^a   Marfin, Anthony A ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ^*  (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY   (United States)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERFERON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; UNITED STATES; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLORADO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 33646084389     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503038     Document Type: Article

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