TO THE EDITOR—We appreciate Dr Jackson’s thoughtful comments regarding the diagnostic criteria for encephalitis proposed by the International Encephalitis Consortium (IEC) Working Group [1]. He raises concerns that (1) individual patients may have laboratory or pathologic evidence of encephalitis without meeting the clinical criteria specified in the IEC case definition, and (2) that patients w...

Supratik Kar 1, Juganta K. Roy 1, Danuta Leszczynska 2 and Jerzy Leszczynski 1,* 1 Interdisciplinary Center for Nanotoxicity, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39217, USA; [email protected] (S.K.); [email protected] (J.K.R.) 2 Interdisciplinary Center for Nanotoxicity, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jackson State...

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216-4505, USA; The Jackson Center for Heart Research, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA; The Cardiovascular-Renal Research Center, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA; and Department of Chemist...