Chlamydia pneumoniae infection-related hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and acute encephalitis and poliomyelitis-like flaccid paralysis

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 853-855

  Yagi, Kanae ^a   Kano, Gen ^a   Shibata, Mayumi ^a   Sakamoto, Izumi ^a   Matsui, Hirofumi ^b   Imashuku, Shinsaku ^c  

^a Kobe College   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Takasago seibu Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlamydia pneumoniae; Encephalitis; Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; Poliomyelitis like flaccid paralysis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CYCLOSPORIN A; FERRITIN; FIBRINOGEN; GANCICLOVIR; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PREDNISOLONE; SOLUBLE INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTISM; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHLAMYDIAL PNEUMONIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONJUNCTIVAL HYPEREMIA; COUGHING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SKIN BIOPSY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CYCLOSPORINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARALYSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 79952144204     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22889     Document Type: Article

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