La Crosse Encephalitis in Children

La Crosse virus is the most pathogenic member of the California encephalitis serogroup. It was first isolated from the brain of a four-year-old child who had died of “rural encephalitis” in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. 1 The virus is transmitted by the tree-hole mosquito, Aedes triseriatus, and caus...

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Published in:	The New England journal of medicine Vol. 344; no. 11; pp. 801 - 807
Main Authors:	McJunkin, James E, de los Reyes, Emily C, Irazuzta, Jose E, Caceres, Manuel J, Khan, Raheel R, Minnich, Linda L, Fu, Kai D, Lovett, Gretchen D, Tsai, Theodore, Thompson, Ann
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Boston, MA Massachusetts Medical Society 15.03.2001
Subjects:	Adolescent Analysis of Variance Biological and medical sciences Brain - diagnostic imaging Brain - pathology Child Child, Preschool Drug therapy Electroencephalography Encephalitis Encephalitis, California - complications Encephalitis, California - diagnosis Encephalitis, California - physiopathology Encephalitis, California - therapy Female Fever Fever - etiology Human viral diseases Humans Hyponatremia - etiology Infant Infectious diseases La Crosse virus Male Medical sciences Meningitis, Aseptic - etiology Nervous System Diseases - etiology Retrospective Studies Risk Factors Statistics, Nonparametric Tomography, X-Ray Computed Viral diseases Viral diseases of the nervous system Vomiting - etiology La Crosse Wisconsin West Virginia United States > US California encephalitis group virus Bunyavirus Insecta Serology La Crosse virus Bunyaviridae Arbovirus disease Evolution Diagnosis Child Human Nervous system diseases Antibody Aedes triseriatus Clinical form Differential diagnostic California encephalitis Cerebral disorder Infection Virus Symptomatology Arthropoda Viral disease Culicidae Central nervous system disease Invertebrata Diptera
ISSN:	0028-4793, 1533-4406
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