Four cases of acute flaccid paralysis associated with chikungunya virus infection

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1277-1280

  Singh, S S ^a   Manimunda, S P ^b   Sugunan, A P ^b   Sahina, P ^a   Vijayachari, P ^b  

^a GB Pant General Hospital   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; INSULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIMB WEAKNESS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PULSE RATE; SEROLOGY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TENDON REFLEX; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA;

EID: 48249123154     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807009739     Document Type: Article

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