Case Report: A Fatal Case of West Nile Virus Meningoencephalomyelitis in a Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Initially Misdiagnosed as SARS-CoV-2 Infection

We present a fatal case of West Nile virus meningoencephalomyelitis initially misdiagnosed as COVID-19 in a 63-year-old Egyptian woman with a previous diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus. The patient’s medical history and immunosuppressive therapy, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, substantial...

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Autores principales: Schiuma, Marco, Pezzati, Laura, Ballone, Elisabetta, Borghi, Beatrice, Osio, Maurizio, Mattavelli, Daniele, Galimberti, Laura, Corbellino, Mario, Mileto, Davide, Zanchetta, Nadia, Antinori, Spinello
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Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8103457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33782207
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-0041
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author Schiuma, Marco
Pezzati, Laura
Ballone, Elisabetta
Borghi, Beatrice
Osio, Maurizio
Mattavelli, Daniele
Galimberti, Laura
Corbellino, Mario
Mileto, Davide
Zanchetta, Nadia
Antinori, Spinello
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Pezzati, Laura
Ballone, Elisabetta
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Osio, Maurizio
Mattavelli, Daniele
Galimberti, Laura
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Mileto, Davide
Zanchetta, Nadia
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spelling pubmed-81034572021-05-10 Case Report: A Fatal Case of West Nile Virus Meningoencephalomyelitis in a Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Initially Misdiagnosed as SARS-CoV-2 Infection Schiuma, Marco Pezzati, Laura Ballone, Elisabetta Borghi, Beatrice Osio, Maurizio Mattavelli, Daniele Galimberti, Laura Corbellino, Mario Mileto, Davide Zanchetta, Nadia Antinori, Spinello Am J Trop Med Hyg Articles We present a fatal case of West Nile virus meningoencephalomyelitis initially misdiagnosed as COVID-19 in a 63-year-old Egyptian woman with a previous diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus. The patient’s medical history and immunosuppressive therapy, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, substantially broadened the differential diagnosis of her encephalitis. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2021-05 2021-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8103457/ /pubmed/33782207 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-0041 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Open Access statement. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited, a link to the CC License is provided, and changes – if any – are indicated.
spellingShingle Articles
Schiuma, Marco
Pezzati, Laura
Ballone, Elisabetta
Borghi, Beatrice
Osio, Maurizio
Mattavelli, Daniele
Galimberti, Laura
Corbellino, Mario
Mileto, Davide
Zanchetta, Nadia
Antinori, Spinello
Case Report: A Fatal Case of West Nile Virus Meningoencephalomyelitis in a Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Initially Misdiagnosed as SARS-CoV-2 Infection
title Case Report: A Fatal Case of West Nile Virus Meningoencephalomyelitis in a Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Initially Misdiagnosed as SARS-CoV-2 Infection
title_full Case Report: A Fatal Case of West Nile Virus Meningoencephalomyelitis in a Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Initially Misdiagnosed as SARS-CoV-2 Infection
title_fullStr Case Report: A Fatal Case of West Nile Virus Meningoencephalomyelitis in a Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Initially Misdiagnosed as SARS-CoV-2 Infection
title_full_unstemmed Case Report: A Fatal Case of West Nile Virus Meningoencephalomyelitis in a Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Initially Misdiagnosed as SARS-CoV-2 Infection
title_short Case Report: A Fatal Case of West Nile Virus Meningoencephalomyelitis in a Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Initially Misdiagnosed as SARS-CoV-2 Infection
title_sort case report: a fatal case of west nile virus meningoencephalomyelitis in a woman with systemic lupus erythematosus initially misdiagnosed as sars-cov-2 infection
topic Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8103457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33782207
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-0041
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