encephalitis

(noun)

an inflammation of the brain

Related Terms

Examples of encephalitis in the following topics:

  • Arboviral Encephalitis

    • Arboviral encephalitis are a group of arthropod-transmitted viruses that cause encephalitis (acute swelling in the brain).
    • Arboviral encephalitis are found in many places throughout the world, and include California encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, St.
    • Louis encephalitis, Tick-borne encephalitis, and West Nile fever.
    • Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an infectious disease of the central nervous system.
    • Sheep ticks (Ixodes ricinus) such as this engorged female transmit encephalitis.

  • West Nile Virus

    • This was until an outbreak in Algeria in 1994, with cases of WNV-caused encephalitis, and the first large outbreak in Romania in 1996, with a high number of cases with neuroinvasive disease.
    • Discuss the causes, symptoms and diseases (West Nile encephalitis, meningitis, meningoencephalitis and poliomyelitis) caused by the West Nile virus (WNV)

  • Rabies

    • Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals.
    • Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) in warm-blooded animals.

  • Classic Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

    • The family Flaviviridae include dengue, yellow fever , and two viruses in the tick-borne encephalitis group that cause VHF: Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus and Kyasanur Forest disease virus.

  • Fungi

    • Cryptococcus neoformans causes severe forms of meningitis and meningo-encephalitis in patients with HIV infection and AIDS.

  • Infectious Disease Transmission

    • Biological vectors are often responsible for serious blood-borne diseases, such as malaria, viral encephalitis, Chagas disease, Lyme disease, and African sleeping sickness.

  • Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases

    • However, there was an outbreak in Algeria in 1994, with cases of WNV-caused encephalitis, and the first large outbreak in Romania in 1996, with a high number of cases with neuroinvasive disease.

  • Viral Genomes in Nature

  • Lyme Disease

    • Mild encephalitis may lead to memory loss, sleep disturbances, or mood changes.

  • Safety in the Microbiology Laboratory

    • Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria.