Falling for a Diagnosis: West Nile Myelitis without Encephalitis

Poliovirus has been eradicated in the US for 40 years. Its sequelae, poliomyelitis, a syndrome characterized by fever, meningitis, and flaccid paralysis, is a rare entity. Other viruses have been implicated in poliomyelitis-like syndromes since the elimination of poliovirus. West Nile virus (WNV), s...

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Autores principales: Chan, Vincent, Minalyan, Artem, Ottman, Patrick, Raza, Ahmad, Tewary, Anubha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6827708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31754573
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5838
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author Chan, Vincent
Minalyan, Artem
Ottman, Patrick
Raza, Ahmad
Tewary, Anubha
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description Poliovirus has been eradicated in the US for 40 years. Its sequelae, poliomyelitis, a syndrome characterized by fever, meningitis, and flaccid paralysis, is a rare entity. Other viruses have been implicated in poliomyelitis-like syndromes since the elimination of poliovirus. West Nile virus (WNV), since its westward migration in 1999, has recently been found to be a causative agent of fever, encephalitis, and acute flaccid paralysis. We present the case of a male who presented to the hospital for fever and experienced a subsequent fall, without any symptoms of encephalitis, diagnosed with WNV infection.
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spelling pubmed-68277082019-11-21 Falling for a Diagnosis: West Nile Myelitis without Encephalitis Chan, Vincent Minalyan, Artem Ottman, Patrick Raza, Ahmad Tewary, Anubha Cureus Infectious Disease Poliovirus has been eradicated in the US for 40 years. Its sequelae, poliomyelitis, a syndrome characterized by fever, meningitis, and flaccid paralysis, is a rare entity. Other viruses have been implicated in poliomyelitis-like syndromes since the elimination of poliovirus. West Nile virus (WNV), since its westward migration in 1999, has recently been found to be a causative agent of fever, encephalitis, and acute flaccid paralysis. We present the case of a male who presented to the hospital for fever and experienced a subsequent fall, without any symptoms of encephalitis, diagnosed with WNV infection. Cureus 2019-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6827708/ /pubmed/31754573 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5838 Text en Copyright © 2019, Chan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Falling for a Diagnosis: West Nile Myelitis without Encephalitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6827708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31754573
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