Emerging Cases of Powassan Virus Encephalitis in New England: Clinical Presentation, Imaging, and Review of the Literature

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 707-713

  Piantadosi, Anne ^a   Rubin, Daniel B ^a   McQuillen, Daniel P ^b   Hsu, Liangge ^c   Lederer, Philip A ^a   Ashbaugh, Cameron D ^d   Duffalo, Chad ^e   Duncan, Robert ^b   Thon, Jesse ^a   Bhattacharyya, Shamik ^a   Basgoz, Nesli ^a   Feske, Steven K ^a   Lyons, Jennifer L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Tufts University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Deer tick virus; Encephalitis; New England; Powassan

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN; ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BASAL GANGLION; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIPLOPIA; DYSARTHRIA; DYSMETRIA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ERYTHROCYTE; EXPOSURE; EYE PAIN; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERREFLEXIA; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUTROPHIL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PLEOCYTOSIS; POWASSAN ENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOMNOLENCE; TICK BITE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VOMITING; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG EFFECTS; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FLAVIVIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; IXODES; MASSACHUSETTS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ACYCLOVIR; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; HUMANS; IXODES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960075472     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ1005     Document Type: Article

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