Venezuelan equine encephalitis and upper gastrointestinal bleeding in Child

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 323-325

  Vilcarromero, Stalin ^a,c   Laguna Torres, V Alberto ^a   Fernández, Connie ^b   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^c   Suárez, Luis ^d   Céspedes, Manuel ^e   Aguilar, Patricia V ^a   Kochel, Tadeusz J ^a  

^a Peru   (United States)

^b Hospital of Yurimaguas   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^d Perú   (Peru)

^e MINISTERIO DE SALUD   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; DIPYRONE; PARACETAMOL; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILL; CONFUSION; DEHYDRATION; DROWSINESS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEVER; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMORRHAGIC SEPTICEMIA; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LETHARGY; MALAISE; MALE; MELENA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VIRUS CULTURE; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PERU; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; VERO CELLS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 63849176173     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1502.081018     Document Type: Article

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