MRI and encephalography in fatal eastern equine encephalitis

MRI and encephalography in fatal eastern equine encephalitis.

Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) is the most severe of the mosquito-borne encephalitides, with a case fatality rate estimated at 36%. We describe 2 fatal cases of seropositive EEE in men. In both patients, EEG monitoring revealed periodic 0.25to 0.5-Hz transients with lower voltages (;20–40 mV) than typically seen in herpes encephalitis (;100–500 mV), and MRI revealed a symmetric pattern of T2...

Eastern equine encephalitis: MRI findings in two patients.

Volume 95 No. 7 July 2012 a previously healthy 20 year-old male presented to the Rhode Island Hospital Emergency Department with 24 hours of worsening abdominal pain, vomiting, and fevers. On physical examination he appeared diaphoretic and febrile, with an oral temperature of 104.3°. The patient was noted to have tenderness to palpation in the epigastric region. Initial laboratory evaluation r...

Eastern, Western and Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis Sleeping Sickness Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis (EEE), Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Eastern Encephalitis Western Equine Encephalomyelitis (WEE), Western Equine Encephalitis Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis (VEE), Peste Loca, Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, Venezuelan Encephalitis, Venezuelan Equine Fever

Eastern equine encephalomyelitis (EEE), western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE), and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) viruses are mosquito-borne pathogens that can cause nonspecific illnesses and encephalitis in equids (horses, mules, burros, donkeys and zebras) and humans in the Americas. Some of these viruses also affect birds and occasionally other mammals. No specific treatment is a...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus

Noncytopathic replication of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus and eastern equine encephalitis virus replicons in Mammalian cells.

Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) and eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) viruses are important, naturally emerging zoonotic viruses. They are significant human and equine pathogens which still pose a serious public health threat. Both VEE and EEE cause chronic infection in mosquitoes and persistent or chronic infection in mosquito-derived cell lines. In contrast, vertebrate hosts infected wit...