Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2019)

Rhombencephalitis and Myeloradiculitis Caused by a European Subtype of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus

  • Lorna Neill,
  • Anna M. Checkley,
  • Laura A. Benjamin,
  • M. Trent Herdman,
  • Daniel P. Carter,
  • Steven T. Pullan,
  • Emma Aarons,
  • Katie Griffiths,
  • Bernadette Monaghan,
  • Kushan Karunaratne,
  • Olga Ciccarelli,
  • Jennifer Spillane,
  • David A.J. Moore,
  • Dimitri M. Kullmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2512.191017
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 12
pp. 2317 – 2319

Abstract

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We report a case of a previously healthy man returning to the United Kingdom from Lithuania who developed rhombencephalitis and myeloradiculitis due to tick-borne encephalitis. These findings add to sparse data on tick-borne encephalitis virus phylogeny and associated neurologic syndromes and underscore the importance of vaccinating people traveling to endemic regions.

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