Journal of Pediatric Critical Care (Jan 2019)
A case of scrub encephalopathy
Abstract
Acute onset fever with altered sensorium is labelled by WHO as acute encephalitis syndrome.[1] There are many causes of such presentation such as bacterial, viral,parasitic, autoimmune, metabolic etc. Most of the cases neurotropic viruses are agents for CNS infection. We report a case of scrub typhus as a cause of acute encephalitic syndrome.
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