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Case Reports
. 2008 May;14(5):828-30.
doi: 10.3201/eid1405.071121.

Acute encephalitis caused by intrafamilial transmission of enterovirus 71 in adult

Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi  1 , Hironori Fujisawa, Kenji Sakai, Soichi Okino, Naoko Kurosaki, Yorihiro Nishimura, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Masahito Yamada
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Case Reports

Acute encephalitis caused by intrafamilial transmission of enterovirus 71 in adult

Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008 May.

Abstract

Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a common cause of hand, foot, and mouth disease and sometimes causes severe neurologic complications, mainly in children. We report a case of adult-onset encephalitis caused by intrafamilial transmission of a subgenogroup C4 strain of EV71. This case elucidates the risk for EV71 encephalitis even in adults.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Magnetic resonance images of the brain. A) Hyperintense lesions in the tegmentum of the pons in the axial section of the fluid-attenuated inversion recovery image. B) In the sagittal section of the T2-weighted image, hyperintense lesions are present in the tegmentum of the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Phylogenetic analysis of EV71 based on the entire VP1 sequences. The tree was prepared by the neighbor-joining method by using the EV71 strains in the world as described previously (6) and newly identified subgenogroup C4 strains (7,8) were also included in the analysis.
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