Follow-up study of Greek patients with West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Anastasiadou, Afroditi ^a   Kakoulidis, Ioannis ^a   Butel, Dimitrios ^a   Kehagia, Emmanuilia ^a   Papa, Anna ^b  

^a Giannitsa General Hospital   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Case series; Follow up; Greece; Neuroinvasive disease; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENTAL FUNCTION; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; SURVIVOR; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS NEUROINVASIVE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEX FACTORS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877648032     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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