Encephalitis in Australian children: Contemporary trends in hospitalisation

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 51-56

  Britton, Philip N ^a,b,c   Khoury, Lynette ^c   Booy, Robert ^a,b,c   Wood, Nicholas ^a,b,c   Jones, Cheryl A ^a,b,c  

^a University of Sydney   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE;

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER ENCEPHALITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; ICD-10; INCIDENCE; LISTERIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORBIDITY; MUMPS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; TREND STUDY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENCEPHALITIS, VARICELLA ZOSTER; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; INFECTIOUS ENCEPHALITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AUSTRALIA; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALITIS, VARICELLA ZOSTER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS ENCEPHALITIS; MALE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84952054492     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2015-308468     Document Type: Article

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