Venezuelan equine encephalitis and 2 human deaths, Peru

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 553-556

  Vilcarromero, Stalin ^a,b   Aguilar, Patricia V ^a   Halsey, Eric S ^a   Laguna Torres, V Alberto ^a   Razuri, Hugo ^a   Perez, Juan ^a   Valderrama, Yadira ^c   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^b   Suárez, Luis ^d   Céspedes, Manuel ^e   Kochel, Tadeusz J ^a  

^a California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c Hospital de Apoyo Yurimaguas   (Peru)

^d Perú   (Peru)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILL; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYDRATION; MALAISE; MALE; MYALGIA; NOSE CONGESTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOGENICITY; PERU; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SNEEZING; SOMNOLENCE; STUPOR; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERU; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77649139932     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.090970     Document Type: Article

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