Diagnosis of acute deer tick virus encephalitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  El Khoury, Marc Y ^a   Hull, Rene C ^b   Bryant, Patrick W ^b   Escuyer, Kay L ^b   St George, Kirsten ^b   Wong, Susan J ^c   Nagaraja, Aarathi ^a   Kramer, Laura ^d   Dupuis, Alan P ^d   Purohit, Treta ^a   Shah, Tushar ^a   Wormser, Gary P ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Laboratory of Viral Diseases   (United States)

^c Diagnostic Immunology Laboratory   (United States)

^d WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

deer tick virus; flavivirus; Ixodes scapularis; meningoencephalitis; Powassan virus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; CEFEPIME; FLUCONAZOLE; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5; PEGINTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN; VANCOMYCIN; VIRUS RNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEER TICK VIRUS; DEER TICK VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSURIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETHARGY; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE FLAVIVIRUS; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS PLAQUE; VIRUS STRAIN;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IXODES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEW YORK; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84873020212     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis938     Document Type: Article

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