No gender-related differences in the severity of nephropathia epidemica, Germany

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Krautkrämer, Ellen ^a   Grouls, Stephan ^a   Urban, Eva ^a   Schnitzler, Paul ^a   Zeier, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender; Hantavirus; Puumala virus; Severity; Transmission

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PUUMALA VIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884829409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-457     Document Type: Article

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