Severe disease manifestations associated with acute chikungunya virus infection

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2682-2683

  Farnon, Eileen C ^a   Sejvar, James J ^a   Staples, J Erin ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Chikungunya virus; Encephalitis; Guillain Barr syndrome; Hepatitis; Meningitis; Myocarditis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AEDES; AFRICA; ASIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; EDITORIAL; FEVER; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ACUTE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

EID: 53049085905     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181843d94     Document Type: Editorial

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