Ljungan virus: A commentary on its association with fetal and infant morbidity and mortality in animals and humans

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 947-952

  Krous, Henry F ^a   Langlois, Neil E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal; Diabetes mellitus; Human; Ljungan virus; Malformation; Myocarditis

Indexed keywords

ANENCEPHALUS; COMORBIDITY; ENCEPHALITIS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MORTALITY; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT MORTALITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LJUNGAN VIRUS INFECTION; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; STILLBIRTH; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TRISOMY 21;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; MYOCARDITIS; PARECHOVIRUS; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; LJUNGAN VIRUS; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 78649590943     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20728     Document Type: Review

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