The First Reported Case of West Nile Encephalitis in Korea

West Nile encephalitis was first identified in 1937, but until now, it was never diagnosed in Korea. A 58-yr-old Korean man was admitted with headache and cognitive dysfunction. The patient had been on a business trip in Guinea. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) showed pleocytosis. The patient complained of...

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Autores principales: Hwang, Jihye, Ryu, Ho-Sung, Kim, Hyunjin, Lee, Sang-Ahm
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25729260
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2015.30.3.343
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author Hwang, Jihye
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description West Nile encephalitis was first identified in 1937, but until now, it was never diagnosed in Korea. A 58-yr-old Korean man was admitted with headache and cognitive dysfunction. The patient had been on a business trip in Guinea. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) showed pleocytosis. The patient complained of both leg weakness,and arachnoiditis and myelitis were observed on lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A specific neutralizing antibody for West Nile virus was positive in serum. After a treatment with interferon-α 3mu, follow up CSF findings recovered completely after 3 months later. The first case of West Nile encephalitis in Korea was imported from Guinea, and was cured successfully. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-43304922015-03-01 The First Reported Case of West Nile Encephalitis in Korea Hwang, Jihye Ryu, Ho-Sung Kim, Hyunjin Lee, Sang-Ahm J Korean Med Sci Case Report West Nile encephalitis was first identified in 1937, but until now, it was never diagnosed in Korea. A 58-yr-old Korean man was admitted with headache and cognitive dysfunction. The patient had been on a business trip in Guinea. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) showed pleocytosis. The patient complained of both leg weakness,and arachnoiditis and myelitis were observed on lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A specific neutralizing antibody for West Nile virus was positive in serum. After a treatment with interferon-α 3mu, follow up CSF findings recovered completely after 3 months later. The first case of West Nile encephalitis in Korea was imported from Guinea, and was cured successfully. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text] The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2015-03 2015-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4330492/ /pubmed/25729260 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2015.30.3.343 Text en © 2015 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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