Litchi-associated acute encephalitis in children, northern Vietnam, 2004-2009

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1817-1824

  Paireau, Juliette ^a   Tuan, Nguyen Hai ^b   Lefrançois, Rémi ^a,c   Buckwalter, Matthew R ^a,d   Nghia, Ngu Duy ^b   Hien, Nguyen Tran ^b   Lortholary, Olivier ^e,f   Poirée, Sylvain ^e   Manuguerra, Jean Claude ^a   Gessain, Antoine ^a,g   Albert, Matthew L ^a,d,f   Brey, Paul T ^h   Nga, Phan Thi ^b   Fontanet, Arnaud ^a,i  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h Institut Pasteur du Laos   (Laos)

ⁱ Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHEMOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ADOLESCENT; AGRONOMIC TRAIT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECOLOGY; ENCEPHALITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HARVESTING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LYCHEE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; VIET NAM;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LITCHI; MALE; VIETNAM;

EID: 84867887043     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1811.111761     Document Type: Article

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