Two laboratory-confirmed cases of Japanese encephalitis imported to Germany by travelers returning from Southeast Asia

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 282-285

  Tappe, Dennis ^a   Nemecek, Andrea ^b   Zipp, Frauke ^b   Emmerich, Petra ^c   Gabriel, Martin ^c   Günther, Stephan ^c   Dobler, Gerhard ^d   Schmidt Chanasit, Jonas ^c   Stich, August ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e Medical Mission Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flavivirus; Japanese encephalitis; Southeast asia; Travel; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMOXICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INDIRECT IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INDONESIA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIMB WEAKNESS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TOURISM; TRAVEL; VIRUS STRAIN;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INDONESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THAILAND; TRAVEL;

EID: 84861672778     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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