Japanese Encephalitis

Alternate Name:

Test:

CSF anti-JE IgM (+), CSF lymphocytes (H), CSF neutrophils (H or N), CSF protein (H), EEG (AB)

Sign:

Convulsions, neck stiffness, Babinski's sign

Dd:

Other acute encephalitis, cerebral malaria, cere-bral abscess, amoebic meningitis, cerebral tu­mour

Phys:

Caused by mosquito borne flavivirus throughout rural east and south Asia. Pigs are co-hosts