Powassan Encephalitis and Colorado Tick Fever

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 545-559

  Romero, José R ^a,b   Simonsen, Kari A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Douglas County Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; GENOMIC RNA; INSECT REPELLENT; RIBAVIRIN;

BLEEDING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORADO TICK FEVER; COLORADO TICK FEVER VIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CARRIER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYLOGENY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; COLORADO; COLORADO TICK FEVER; COLORADO TICK FEVER VIRUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMANS; IXODES;

EID: 49849094026     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2008.03.001     Document Type: Review

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