Journal article
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis with remission in a Bosnian refugee child
The Pediatric infectious disease journal, Vol.22(8), pp.757-758
08/2003
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000081585.84685.09
PMID: 12913781
Abstract
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) virtually disappeared from the US after mass measles immunization programs dating from the 1960s. However, SSPE has reappeared in internationally adopted children and in refugee children emigrating from developing or war torn countries lacking effective measles immunization programs. SSPE usually occurs 6 to 8 years after a bout of measles in early childhood; death typically follows within 1 to 3 years. What is often not reported in textbooks is that spontaneous remission occurs in a small subset of children with documented SSPE.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis with remission in a Bosnian refugee child
- Creators
- Katherine Mathews - University of Iowa, Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Pediatric infectious disease journal, Vol.22(8), pp.757-758
- DOI
- 10.1097/01.inf.0000081585.84685.09
- PMID
- 12913781
- NLM abbreviation
- Pediatr Infect Dis J
- ISSN
- 0891-3668
- eISSN
- 1532-0987
- Publisher
- United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2003
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurology (Pediatrics)
- Record Identifier
- 9984020710502771
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