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Changes in serum C-reactive protein during complicated and uncomplicated measles virus infections

  • Diane E. Griffin
  • , Robert L. Hirsch
  • , Richard T. Johnson
  • , Imelda Lindo De Soriano
  • , Susie Roedenbeck
  • , Abraham Vaisberg
  • Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

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Abstract

Serum C-reactive protein levels become elevated coincident with the onset of the rash in patients with measles. Serum C-reactive protein elevations are prolonged in measles complicated by pneumonia and may show a second elevation in measles complicated by encephalitis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)861-864
Number of pages4
JournalInfection and Immunity
Volume41
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1983

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