Case 17-2003: A 38-year-old woman with fever, headache, and confusion

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2239-2247

  Hirsch, Martin S ^a   Werner, Barbara ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b State Laboratory Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; INSECT REPELLENT; INSECTICIDE; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NECK MUSCLE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS ETIOLOGY; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, EASTERN EQUINE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0038132035     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030015     Document Type: Article

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