Short report: Case reports of neuro-chikungunya in Southern Thailand

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 386-389

  Chusri, Sarunyou ^a   Siripaitoon, Pisud ^a   Hirunpat, Siriporn ^a   Silpapojakul, Khachornsakdi ^a  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; GLUCOSE; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITING ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHIKUNGUNYA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYELITIS; MYELONEUROPATHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; STUPOR; SWELLING; THAILAND; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTION; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DENGUE VIRUS; HERPESVIRIDAE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTININS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE;

EID: 80051531065     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0725     Document Type: Article

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