Kyasanur Forest Disease - First Reported Case in Kerala.

Autor: Shiji PV; Assistant Professor., Viswanath V; Provisional Lecture., Sreekumar S; Junior Resident., Sreejith R; Junior Resident., Majeed A; Additional Professor., Udayabhaskaran V; Professor, Department of Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India [J Assoc Physicians India] 2016 Mar; Vol. 64 (3), pp. 90-91.
Abstrakt: Kyasanur Forest disease is a tick-borne arboviral fever with biphasic course of illness with prominent hemorrhagic features in the first phase and encephalitic picture in the second phase. So far it has been described in the southern Karnataka only. Here we report a case of Kyasanur Forest Disease for the first time from Kerala in an 18 year old male from Noolpuzha - Alathoor colony of Wayanad district.
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Databáze: MEDLINE