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1Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan. h-kubota@ta2.so-net.ne.jp
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|April 17, 2001
Abstract:
A 7-year-old boy with acute encephalitis was proved to have Coxiella burnetii infection. Cerebrospinal fluid but not serum had elevated values of interleukins 1-beta and 6, but not of tumor necrosis factor.