Fatal measles without rash in immunocompetent adult, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 521-523

  Lupo, Julien ^a,b   Bernard, Sylvain ^a   Wintenberger, Claire ^a   Baccard, Monique ^a   Vabret, Astrid ^c   Antona, Denise ^d   Timsit, Jean François ^b   Morand, Patrice ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; COMMON COLD; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FRANCE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LETTER; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SINUSITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS STRAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; EXANTHEMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MEASLES;

EID: 84857618436     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1803.111300     Document Type: Letter

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