Severe tick-borne encephalitis in a patient previously infected by West Nile virus

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 759-761

  Ferenczi, Emöke ^a   Bán, Enikö ^a   Ábrahám, Anita ^b   Kaposi, Tamásné ^a   Petrányi, Gábor ^a   Berencsi, György ^a   Vaheri, Antti ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b Laboratory for Diagnostic Virology   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT ENHANCEMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 50549089234     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540801995386     Document Type: Article

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