Heartland virus-associated death in Tennessee

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 845-850

  Muehlenbachs, Atis ^a   Fata, Cynthia R ^b   Lambert, Amy J ^a   Paddock, Christopher D ^a   Velez, Jason O ^a   Blau, Dianna M ^a   Staples, J Erin ^a   Karlekar, Mohana B ^b   Bhatnagar, Julu ^a   Nasci, Roger S ^a   Zaki, Sherif R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Heartland virus; Pathology; Tick borne illness; Unexplained death

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; HEARTLAND VIRUS ANTIGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATALITY; FEVER; HEARTLAND VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPONATREMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHLEBOVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; SPLEEN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHLEBOVIRUS; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPING; VIROLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHLEBOVIRUS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; TENNESSEE;

EID: 84907390339     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu434     Document Type: Article

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