Acute febrile encephalopathy in adults from Northwest India

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 220-224

  Bhalla, Ashish ^a   Suri, Vika ^a   Varma, Subhash ^a   Sharma, Navneet ^a   Mahi, Sushil ^a   Singh, Paramjeet ^a   Khandelwal, Niranjan K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Altered mentation; encephalopathy; fever; meningoencephalitis; tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650452417     PISSN: 09742700     EISSN: 0974519X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-2700.66520     Document Type: Article

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