Outbreack of st. luis encephalitis in the metropolitan buenos aires area;Brote de encefalitis de san luis en el area metropolitana buenos aires

Medicina

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-217

  Seijo, Alfredo ^a   Morales, Alejandra ^b   Poustis, Gladys ^a   Romer, Yamila ^a   Efron, Ernesto ^c   Vilora, Guillermo ^d   Lloveras, Susana ^a   Giamperetti, Sergio ^a   Puente, Teresita ^e   Monroig, Jessica ^a   Luppo, Victoria ^b   Enria, Delia ^b  

^a HOSPITAL F J MUÑIZ   (Argentina)

^b Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas   (Argentina)

^c HOSPITAL BRITÁNICO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d HOSPITAL RAMOS MEJÍA   (Argentina)

^e and PANLAR Axial Spondyloarthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis Study Group   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Buenos aires; Encephalitis outbreak; St. louis virus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENGUE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLEOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; ADOLESCENT; ARGENTINA; ENCEPHALITIS, ST. LOUIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARGENTINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS, ST. LOUIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855463311     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: 16699106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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