A new phlebovirus associated with severe febrile illness in Missouri

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 834-841

  McMullan, Laura K ^a   Folk, Scott M ^d   Kelly, Aubree J ^c   MacNeil, Adam ^a   Goldsmith, Cynthia S ^b   Metcalfe, Maureen G ^b   Batten, Brigid C ^b   Albariño, César G ^a   Zaki, Sherif R ^b   Rollin, Pierre E ^a   Nicholson, William L ^c   Nichol, Stuart T ^a,e  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Heartland Health   (United States)

^e MS G14   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CEFTRIAXONE; D DIMER; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; KETONE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; SODIUM; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FATIGUE; FEVER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEADACHE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KETONURIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHLEBOVIRUS INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK BITE; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 84865487218     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1203378     Document Type: Article

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