Recovery from adult measles encephalitis immediately after early immunomodulation

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 148-149

  Nakajima, Masashi ^a   Sakuishi, Kaori ^b   Fukuda, Saki ^a   Fujioka, Shinsuke ^a   Hashida, Hideji ^b  

^a TOKYO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEASLES; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; JAPAN;

ADULT; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; JAPAN; MEASLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46249127090     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588851     Document Type: Letter

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