An outbreak of aseptic meningitis due to echovirus 30 in a high school baseball club - Possible role of severe exercise for a high attack rate

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 1767-1771

  Hayashi, Takeshi ^a   Shirayoshi, Takamasa ^a   Nagano, Takuro ^a   Yaoita, Hiroyuki ^a   Kogure, Shuji ^a   Nariai, Hiroki ^a   Natsumeda, Tomo ^a   Taniuchi, Mayumi ^a   Sandoh, Mitsuru ^a   Sato, Yoshitake ^a  

^a FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attack rate; Echovirus; Enterovirus; Meningitis; Outbreak; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHO VIRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TACHYCARDIA; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASEBALL; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECHOVIRUS INFECTIONS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC;

EID: 70450187115     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2298     Document Type: Article

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