Complex febrile seizures followed by complete recovery in an infant with high-titer 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3803-3805

  O'Leary, Mandy F ^a   Chappell, James D ^a   Stratton, Charles W ^a   Cronin, Robert M ^a   Taylor, Mary B ^a   Tang, Yi Wei ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; OSELTAMIVIR;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX FEBRILE SEIZURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; CYANOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FAMILY HISTORY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MALE; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT CONGESTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TITRATION; VOMITING;

HUMANS; INFANT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; OSELTAMIVIR; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; VIRAL LOAD;

INFLUENZA A VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 77957799268     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00825-10     Document Type: Article

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