Imported case of lassa fever in Sweden with encephalopathy and sensorineural hearing deficit

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Grahn, Anna ^a   Bråve, Andreas ^c   Lagging, Martin ^a   Dotevall, Leif ^b   Ekqvist, David ^d   Hammarström, Helena ^a   Karlberg, Helen ^c   Lagerqvist, Nina ^c   Sansone, Martina ^a   Tegnell, Anders ^c   Ulleryd, Peter ^a,b   Studahl, Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention ^*  (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Encephalopathy; Hearing deficit; Lassa fever; Viral hemorrhagic fever

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LASSA FEVER; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAVEL; URINALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 84996537972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw198     Document Type: Article

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