Ongoing outbreak of aseptic meningitis associated with echovirus type 30 in the City of Novi Sad, autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia, June-July 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 1-4

  Cosic G ^a   Duric P ^a   Milosevic V ^a   Dekic J ^a   Canak G ^b   Turkulov, V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH OF VOJVODINA   (Serbia)

^b Clinical Centre of Vojvodina   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; ECHO VIRUS; ECHO VIRUS TYPE 30; ECHOVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PHARYNGITIS; PHOTOPHOBIA; PLEOCYTOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SERBIA; SEROLOGY; STIFF NECK; TREND STUDY; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 77955971132     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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