West Nile virus encephalitis in kidney transplanted patient, first case in Hungary: Case report

Interventional Medicine and Applied Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 80-83

  Smudla, Anikó ^a,b   Gerlei, Zsuzsanna ^a   Gergely, Levente ^a   Varga, Marina ^a   Toronyi, Éva ^a   Doros, Attila ^a   Mándli, Tamás ^a   Arányi, Zsuzsanna ^b   Bán, Eniko ^c   Sárváry, Eniko ^a   Kóbori, László ^a   Fazakas, János ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

case report; encephalitis; intravenous immunoglobulin therapy; kidney transplantation; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865329949     PISSN: 20611617     EISSN: 20615094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/IMAS.3.2011.2.8     Document Type: Article

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