Clinical manifestations of Japanese encephalitis in southern Taiwan

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 296-302

  Chen, Kuang Ming ^a   Tsai, Hung Chin ^a   Sy, Cheng Len ^a   Lee, Susan Shin Jung ^a   Liu, Yung Ching ^a   Wann, Shue Ren ^a   Wang, Yung Hsing ^a   Mai, Ming Hsin ^a   Chen, Jei Kuang ^a   Wu, Kuan Sheng ^a   Chen, Yi Jan ^a   Chen, Yao Shen ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Flavivirus; Japanese; Signs and symptoms; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PLEOCYTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINORRHEA; SORE THROAT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAIWAN; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TAIWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74849130815     PISSN: 16841182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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