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cord-279570-lgbqpfh5	Fragkou, Paraskevi C.	Clinical characteristics and outcomes of measles outbreak in adults: a multicenter retrospective observational study of 93 hospitalized adults in Greece	2020-08-26		.txt	text/plain	2743	166	48	In this study we aim to describe the clinical characteristics and complications of measles infection in hospitalized adults during the recent epidemic in Greece. All adult hospitalized patients (≥18 years old) with serologically confirmed and/or clinical features compatible with measles were included. In this study, we describe our experience from the recent outbreak of measles in adult hospitalized patients in Greece [8] . One obese female patient with a Grade II hepatic involvement and pneumonitis that progressed rapidly into acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) requiring mechanical ventilation, died within 6 days of her admission due to high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) despite being treated with ribavirin. In this study we describe the clinical features and outcomes of mostly healthy and young adult hospitalized patients with measles. In summary, in this study we presented the clinical characteristics of measles infection during the recent epidemic in hospitalized adults in Greece.	./cache/cord-279570-lgbqpfh5.txt	./txt/cord-279570-lgbqpfh5.txt