Fatal tick-borne encephalitis in an immunosuppressed 12-year-old patient

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 73-74

  Chmelík, Václav ^a   Chrdle, Aleš ^a   Růžek, Daniel ^b,c  

^a Hospital eské Bud jovice   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; ETOPOSIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANEMIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; COMA; FEVER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMIZED PATIENT; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TREMOR; WEAKNESS; GENETICS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; URINE; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; URINE; VIREMIA; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 84951837940     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.11.029     Document Type: Letter

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