Vaccine encephalopathy: a myth collapses?;Encéphalopathie post-vaccinale : un mythe qui s'effondre ?

Presse Medicale

Volumn 36, Issue 10 I, 2007, Pages 1339-1340

  Kahane, Philippe ^a,b   Arzimanoglou, Alexis ^b,c  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Hospices civils de Lyon ^*  (France)

^c Hopital Robert Debre   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CHAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; EDITORIAL; EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTVACCINE ENCEPHALOPATHY; VACCINATION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 34848868786     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lpm.2007.05.025     Document Type: Editorial

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