An outbreak of echovirus 18 encephalitis/meningitis in children in Hebei province, China, 2015

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Chen, Xiangpeng ^a   Li, Jingjie ^b   Guo, Jiayun ^a   Xu, Wenbo ^c   Sun, Suzhen ^b   Xie, Zhengde ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Children Hospital of Hebei Province   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRAL PROTEIN;

CHILD; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS B; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MENINGITIS; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS; PHYLOGENY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 85041547581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2017.39     Document Type: Letter

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