Encephalitis-associated human metapneumovirus pneumonia in adult, Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2074-2076

  Fok, Anthony ^a,c   Mateevici, Cristina ^a   Lin, Belinda ^a   Chandra, Ronil V ^b   Chong, Victor H T ^a  

^a WESTERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALITIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NEUTROPHILIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINORRHEA; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; INFECTIOUS ENCEPHALITIS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NASOPHARYNGEAL DISEASES; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL;

AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS ENCEPHALITIS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL DISEASES; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL;

EID: 84944625805     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2111.150608     Document Type: Article

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