Atypical chikungunya virus infections in immunocompromised patients

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1038-1040

  Kee, Adrian C L ^a   Yang, Samantha ^a   Tambyah, Paul ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BLOATING; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DROWSINESS; DRUG RESPONSE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; URINE CULTURE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VOMITING;

AGED; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; ENCEPHALITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

EID: 77952683193     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1606.091115     Document Type: Letter

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