Infectious Causes and Infectious Mimics of Acute Encephalitis: a Prospective Study from Thailand
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Infectious Causes of Encephalitis and Meningoencephalitis in Thailand, 2003–2005
Acute encephalitis is a severe neurologic syndrome. Determining etiology from among ≈100 possible agents is difficult. To identify infectious etiologies of encephalitis in Thailand, we conducted surveillance in 7 hospitals during July 2003-August 2005 and selected patients with acute onset of brain dysfunction with fever or hypothermia and with abnormalities seen on neuroimages or electroenceph...
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دوره 4 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017