Fulminant parvovirus B19-associated pancarditis with haemophagocytic lympho-histiocytosis in an immunocompetent adult

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Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 773-777

  Bal, Amanjit ^a   Mishra, Baijayantimala ^a   Singh, Navneet ^a   Das, Ashim ^a   Jindal, S K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Haemophagocytic lympho histiocytosis; Myocarditis; Parvovirus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLOROQUINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYOCARDITIS; PARVOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEPSIS;

ADULT; HUMANS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS B19, HUMAN;

EID: 70349345894     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2009.02528.x     Document Type: Article

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