Zika virus associated deaths in Colombia

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 523-524

  Sarmiento Ospina, Andrea ^a   Vásquez Serna, Heriberto ^b   Jimenez Canizales, Carlos E ^b,c   Villamil Gómez, Wilmer E ^d   Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^c,d  

^a Secretary of Health of Ibague   (Colombia)

^b Secretary of Health of Tolima   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^d Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INSULIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHILD; COLOMBIA; DEHYDRATION; DENGUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN TREATMENT; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MUCOSAL BLEEDING; MYALGIA; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SOMNOLENCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZIKA FEVER; AGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PREGNANCY; ZIKA VIRUS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOMBIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84963632033     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30006-8     Document Type: Letter

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