Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a measles complication, in an internationally adopted child.

A healthy 13-year-old boy who had spent the first 4.5 years of his life in an orphanage in Thailand before adoption by an American couple became ill with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis and died several months later. The boy had most likely contracted wild-type measles in Thailand. Measles compl...

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Autores principales: Bonthius, D J, Stanek, N, Grose, C
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10905971
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description A healthy 13-year-old boy who had spent the first 4.5 years of his life in an orphanage in Thailand before adoption by an American couple became ill with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis and died several months later. The boy had most likely contracted wild-type measles in Thailand. Measles complications are a risk in international adoptions.
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spelling pubmed-26408852009-05-20 Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a measles complication, in an internationally adopted child. Bonthius, D J Stanek, N Grose, C Emerg Infect Dis Research Article A healthy 13-year-old boy who had spent the first 4.5 years of his life in an orphanage in Thailand before adoption by an American couple became ill with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis and died several months later. The boy had most likely contracted wild-type measles in Thailand. Measles complications are a risk in international adoptions. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 /pmc/articles/PMC2640885/ /pubmed/10905971 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a measles complication, in an internationally adopted child.
title Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a measles complication, in an internationally adopted child.
title_full Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a measles complication, in an internationally adopted child.
title_fullStr Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a measles complication, in an internationally adopted child.
title_full_unstemmed Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a measles complication, in an internationally adopted child.
title_short Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a measles complication, in an internationally adopted child.
title_sort subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a measles complication, in an internationally adopted child.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10905971
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