Clinico-laboratory profile and outcome of Japanese encephalitis in Nepali children

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 293-301

  Rayamajhi, Ajit ^c   Singh, Rupa ^a   Prasad, Rajniti ^a   Khanal, Basudha ^a   Singhi, Sunit ^b  

^a B P KOIRALA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Nepal)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c Kanti Children's Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PENICILLIN G; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN;

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE TREATMENT; ENCEPHALITIS; ETIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN MALARIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GRAM STAINING; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEPAL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; SEIZURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEX RATIO; SUMMER; TROPIC CLIMATE; VOMITING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; PARESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; VIROLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; FEMALE; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEPAL; PARESIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SEIZURES;

EID: 34447344470     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532806X152818     Document Type: Article

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