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Powassan virus infection: case series and literature review from a single institution

BACKGROUND: Powassan virus is a flavivirus related to eastern hemisphere’s tick-borne encephalitis viruses. It can cause a rare but potentially life-threatening disease including encephalitis. CASE PRESENTATION: We report four cases of POWV infection in Minnesota and North Dakota with known exposure...

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Autores principales: Raval, Mihir, Singhal, Mayank, Guerrero, Dubert, Alonto, Augusto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23111001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-594