Avtor/Urednik		Čižman, M; Jazbec, J
Naslov		Etiology of acute encephalitis in childhood in Slovenia
Tip		članek
Vir		Pediatr Infect Dis J
Vol. in št.		Letnik 12, št. 11
Leto izdaje		1993
Obseg		str. 903-8
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		The etiology of acute encephalitis was evaluated in a retrospective study of 170 children (98 boys and 72 girls) ages 1 month to 15 years, who were hospitalized during a 13-year period from 1979 to 1991. The etiology was confirmed or considered very probable in 68 percent of cases. The identified etiologic agents included Central European tick-borne encephalitis virus (28.8 percent), varicella-zoster virus (17.0 percent), herpes simplex (10.0 percent), rubella (2.9 percent), mumps (2.3 percent), measles virus, Chlamydia psittaci (1.1 percent) and some other agents found in individual cases. The etiology remained unknown in 54 children (31.7 percent). Forty-two patients had encephalitis with focal neurologic signs. The most common confirmed or presumptive infective agent in those cases was herpes simplex virus (40.4 percent), followed by rubella (7.1 percent), Central European tick-borne encephalitis virus (4.7 percent) and some other agents identified in individual cases. The etiology remained unknown in 15 (36 percent) children with focal encephalitis.
Deskriptorji		ENCEPHALITIS ACUTE DISEASE ADOLESCENCE CHILD CHILD, PRESCHOOL ENCEPHALITIS INFANT RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES SLOVENIA VACCINATION