The early prediction of fatality in Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever patients

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 742-743

  Yesilyurt, Murat ^a   Gul, Serdar ^a   Ozturk, Baris ^a   Kayhan, Bekir C ^a   Celik, Mesure ^a   Uyar, Cemile ^a   Erdogan, Fikret ^a  

^a Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG USE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXHAUSTION; FATALITY; FATIGUE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VOMITING;

ADULT; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79960707583     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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