West Nile virus encephalomyelitis in transplant recipients

JAMA

Volumn 292, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 859-860

  Rosenberg, Roger N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIDEMIC; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PARKINSONISM; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; TREMOR; UNITED STATES; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 4043070885     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.292.7.859     Document Type: Note

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