Beyond viruses: Clinical profiles and etiologies associated with encephalitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1565-1577

  Glaser, C A ^a   Honarmand, S ^a   Anderson, L J ^c   Schnurr, D P ^a   Forghani, B ^a   Cossen, C K ^a   Schuster, F L ^a   Christie, L J ^a   Tureen, J H ^b  

^a VIRAL AND RICKETTSIAL DISEASE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES VIRUS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN; SYNDROME; VIRUSES;

EID: 33845459637     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509330     Document Type: Article

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