Tick-borne encephalitis in Poland in years 1993-2008 - epidemiology and clinical presentation. A retrospective study of 687 patients

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 673-679

  Czupryna, P ^a   Moniuszko, A ^a   Pancewicz, S A ^a   Grygorczuk, S ^a   Kondrusik, M ^a   Zajkowska, J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Clinical forms; Epidemiology; Sequelae; TBE

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DEXAMETHASONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALOMYELITIS; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEROLOGY; SLEEP DISORDER; SPINAL NERVE PARALYSIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; COMORBIDITY; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954618362     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: 14681331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2010.03278.x     Document Type: Article

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