High mortality in Nipah encephalitis is associated with presence of virus in cerebrospinal fluid
During the outbreak of Nipah virus encephalitis in Malaysia, stored cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 84 patients (27 fatal and 57 nonfatal cases) were cultured for the virus. The virus was isolated from 17 fatal cases and I nonfatal case. There were significant associations between CSF virus i...
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2000
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Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/4586/ |
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