Infections of the brain caused by arthropod-borne viruses (i.e., arboviruses) primarily from the families TOGAVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; BUNYAVIRIDAE; REOVIRIDAE; and RHABDOVIRIDAE. Life cycles of these viruses are characterized by ZOONOSES, with birds and lower mammals serving as intermediate hosts. The virus is transmitted to humans by the bite of mosquitoes (CULICIDAE) or TICKS. Clinical manifestations include fever, headache, alterations of mentation, focal neurologic deficits, and COMA. (From Clin Microbiol Rev 1994 Jan;7(1):89-116; Walton, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, 10th ed, p321)
    

concept

Encephalitis, Arbovirus

Catalogue

Chronic epidemic encephalitis / by August Wimmer.

A fever in Salem : a new interpretation of the New England witch trials / Laurie Winn Carlson.

Sleeping sickness in Kenya.

Psychopathology of forced movements and the oculogyric crises of lethargic encephalitis / by Smith Ely Jelliffe.

Asleep : the forgotten epidemic that remains one of medicine's greatest mysteries / Molly Caldwell Crosby.