Fatal neonatal parechovirus encephalitis

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Van Zwol, Arjen L ^a   Lequin, Maarten ^a   Aarts Tesselaar, Coranne ^a   Van Der Eijk, Annemiek A ^b   Driessen, Gertjan A ^b   De Hoog, Matthijs ^a   Govaert, Paul ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84897585786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.05.2009.1883     Document Type: Article

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