Snowshoe Hare Virus Causing Meningoencephalitis in a Young Adult From Northern Manitoba, Canada

We describe a dramatic presentation of meningoencephalitis, in a young Aboriginal male from Northern Manitoba, due to infection with the Snowshoe hare virus, a member of the California serogroup viruses. Snowshoe hare virus represents a rare cause of meningoencephalitis, and, to date, few Canadian c...

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Autores principales: Lau, Lawrence, Wudel, Beverly, Kadkhoda, Kamran, Keynan, Yoav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5597862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28948178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx150
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description We describe a dramatic presentation of meningoencephalitis, in a young Aboriginal male from Northern Manitoba, due to infection with the Snowshoe hare virus, a member of the California serogroup viruses. Snowshoe hare virus represents a rare cause of meningoencephalitis, and, to date, few Canadian cases have been described in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-55978622017-09-25 Snowshoe Hare Virus Causing Meningoencephalitis in a Young Adult From Northern Manitoba, Canada Lau, Lawrence Wudel, Beverly Kadkhoda, Kamran Keynan, Yoav Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We describe a dramatic presentation of meningoencephalitis, in a young Aboriginal male from Northern Manitoba, due to infection with the Snowshoe hare virus, a member of the California serogroup viruses. Snowshoe hare virus represents a rare cause of meningoencephalitis, and, to date, few Canadian cases have been described in the literature. Oxford University Press 2017-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5597862/ /pubmed/28948178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx150 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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