A case of scrub encephalopathy
Acute onset fever with altered sensorium is labelled by WHO as acute encephalitis syndrome.[1] There are many causes of such presentation such as bacterial, viral,parasitic, autoimmune, metabolic etc. Most of the cases neurotropic viruses are agents for CNS infection. We report a case of scrub typhu...
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications,
2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | Acute onset fever with altered sensorium is labelled by WHO as acute encephalitis syndrome.[1] There are many causes of such presentation such as bacterial, viral,parasitic, autoimmune, metabolic etc. Most of the cases neurotropic viruses are agents for CNS infection. We report a case of scrub typhus as a cause of acute encephalitic syndrome. |
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| Item Description: | 2349-6592 2455-7099 10.21304/2019.0602.00491 |