Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, French Guiana

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 739-741

  Matheus, Séverine ^a   Djossou, Félix ^b   Moua, David ^a   Bourbigot, Anne Marie ^b   Hommel, Didier ^b   Lacoste, Vincent ^a   Dussart, Philippe ^a   Lavergne, Anne ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; FEVER; FRENCH GUIANA; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG RESISTANCE; MALE; MELENA; MYALGIA; NEPHRITIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VOMITING;

ADULT; FRENCH GUIANA; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77950664377     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1604.090831     Document Type: Letter

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