Characteristics and Outcomes of Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy Cases among Children and Adults in Japan, 2010-2015

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 1831-1837

  Okuno, Hideo ^a,b   Yahata, Yuichiro ^a   Tanaka Taya, Keiko ^a   Arai, Satoru ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a   Morino, Saeko ^a   Shimada, Tomoe ^a   Sunagawa, Tomimasa ^a   Uyeki, Timothy M ^c   Oishi, Kazunori ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

adults; children; influenza; influenza associated encephalopathy; severity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE FATALITY RATE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA ASSOCIATED ENCEPHALOPATHY; INFLUENZA B; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEIZURE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VOMITING; AGE; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85047244756     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix1126     Document Type: Article

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