Severe neuroinvasive West Nile virus infection in a child with undiagnosed Addison's disease

This report describes a case of West Nile virus (WNV) meningoencephalitis in a child who presented with fever, headache, seizures, and altered mental status, as well as hyponatremia and bronzing of the skin. Findings that led to the diagnosis of WNV included plasma-cell pleocytosis of the cerebrospi...

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Autores principales: Messacar, Kevin, Cree-Green, Melanie, Lovell, Mark, Anderson, Marsha S., Dominguez, Samuel R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25133095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2014.04.001

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