Tick-Borne Encephalitis in an 8.5-Month-Old Boy Suspected of Febrile Seizures

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a serious viral neuroinfection affecting humans in large areas of Europe and Asia. TBE can occur at any age, but only a few reports of TBE in infants younger than 1 year have been published. Here, we report a case of severe TBE in an 8.5-month-old boy presenting with...

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Autores principales: Krbková, Lenka, Čapovová, Iva, Homola, Lukáš, Lindušková, Jana, Salát, Jiří, Růžek, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8306824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34361861
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071425
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author Krbková, Lenka
Čapovová, Iva
Homola, Lukáš
Lindušková, Jana
Salát, Jiří
Růžek, Daniel
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description Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a serious viral neuroinfection affecting humans in large areas of Europe and Asia. TBE can occur at any age, but only a few reports of TBE in infants younger than 1 year have been published. Here, we report a case of severe TBE in an 8.5-month-old boy presenting with seizures at the beginning of the neurological phase.
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spelling pubmed-83068242021-07-25 Tick-Borne Encephalitis in an 8.5-Month-Old Boy Suspected of Febrile Seizures Krbková, Lenka Čapovová, Iva Homola, Lukáš Lindušková, Jana Salát, Jiří Růžek, Daniel Microorganisms Case Report Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a serious viral neuroinfection affecting humans in large areas of Europe and Asia. TBE can occur at any age, but only a few reports of TBE in infants younger than 1 year have been published. Here, we report a case of severe TBE in an 8.5-month-old boy presenting with seizures at the beginning of the neurological phase. MDPI 2021-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8306824/ /pubmed/34361861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071425 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Krbková, Lenka
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Tick-Borne Encephalitis in an 8.5-Month-Old Boy Suspected of Febrile Seizures
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title_full Tick-Borne Encephalitis in an 8.5-Month-Old Boy Suspected of Febrile Seizures
title_fullStr Tick-Borne Encephalitis in an 8.5-Month-Old Boy Suspected of Febrile Seizures
title_full_unstemmed Tick-Borne Encephalitis in an 8.5-Month-Old Boy Suspected of Febrile Seizures
title_short Tick-Borne Encephalitis in an 8.5-Month-Old Boy Suspected of Febrile Seizures
title_sort tick-borne encephalitis in an 8.5-month-old boy suspected of febrile seizures
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8306824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34361861
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071425
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