Novel phlebovirus in febrile child, Greece

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 940-941

  Anagnostou, Vassiliki ^a   Pardalos, Grigorios ^b   Athanasiou Metaxa, Miranda ^b   Papa, Anna ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHLEBOVIRUS INFECTION; RHINITIS; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOM; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VOMITING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEVER; GENETIC VARIATION; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHLEBOVIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 79955756346     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.101958     Document Type: Letter

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