Rhombencephalitis and coxsackievirus A16

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1689-1691

  Goto, Kazuna ^a   Sanefuji, Masafumi ^a   Kusuhara, Koichi ^a,c   Nishimura, Yorihiro ^b   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^b   Kira, Ryutaro ^a   Torisu, Hiroyuki ^a   Hara, Toshiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; COXSACKIE VIRUS A; ENTEROVIRUS 17; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCULAR FLUTTER; PAPULAR RASH; PHYLOGENY; RHOMBENCEPHALITIS; STOMATITIS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS A, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS C, HUMAN; FECES; FEMALE; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT;

EID: 70349977119     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1510.090594     Document Type: Letter

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