1C85
category
Encefalitis japonesa
Definition
Japanese encephalitis is an arboviral disease (a disease due to a virus transmitted by an arthropod) caused by a flavivirus spread by wild birds, amplified by domestic pigs, and transmitted to humans mainly by a mosquito of the genus Culex. Infected individuals present with signs ranging from moderate with a headache and low-grade fever to more severe infection with high fever, meningeal syndrome (neck stiffness, vomiting), disorientation and sometimes tremors or coma. The disease, when it is symptomatic, can leave neurological sequelae and leads to death in 25 to 30% of the cases. [No translation available]
Also indexed as
EJ [encefalitis japonesa]EJB [encefalitis japonesa de tipo B]Encefalitis japonesaencefalitis Bencefalitis de tipo Bencefalitis japonesa de tipo Bencefalitis otoñal rusaenfermedad por el virus de la encefalitis japonesainfección por JEVinfección por el virus de la encefalitis japonesa