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Venezuelan equine encephalitis and upper gastrointestinal bleeding in child.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Feb 2009
Vilcarromero Stalin, Laguna-Torres V Alberto, Fernández Connie, Gotuzzo Eduardo, Suárez Luis, Céspedes Manuel, Aguilar Patricia V, Kochel Tadeusz J
Abstract excerpt
Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) is reemerging in Peru. VEE virus subtype ID in Peru has not been previously associated with severe disease manifestations. In 2006, VEE virus subtype ID was isolated from a boy with severe febrile disease and gastrointestinal bleeding; the strain contained 2 mutations within the PE2 region.
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