Sentences with phrase «causes of encephalitis»

For example certain toxic elements such as lead, certain metabolic malfunctions such as liver disease, certain aberrant migration of a parasitic disease such as roundworm, and certain tumors are all possible causes of encephalitis in addition to the infectious causes such as Lyme disease.

Tests such as blood work, urinalysis, electroencephalogram, spinal tap and CAT scans can all be run to narrow the possible causes of encephalitis and arrive at a working diagnosis.

Merck states: «noninfectious causes of encephalitis include... vaccine reactions: many».

This inflammation can be caused by infection of the brain (bacterial, viral, fungal and parasites are examples of infectious causes of encephalitis) or can be immune - mediated; which means the body's immune system is malfunctioning and creating abnormal inflammation for reasons we do not fully understand.

Non-infectious causes of encephalitis are much more common in dogs and will be the focus of this article.

His contributions include the first use of genetic methods to identify an infectious agent; implication of West Nile virus as the cause of the encephalitis in North America in 1999; invention of MassTag PCR and the first panmicrobial microarray; first use of deep sequencing in pathogen discovery; and molecular characterization of more than 600 viruses.

Although most people think of infection as the most common cause of encephalitis there are actually many other possibilities to consider.

Not exact matches

JE is the leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asia.

The precise cause of death was encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.

Every year as the days grow warmer, the Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) reemerges along the eastern coast of the United States, where it causes devastating disease in horses and, more rarely, humans.

Elegant, dainty, and deadly, it is the most common of all blood - sucking arthropods and the most important insect carrier of human disease, transmitting not only malaria but also yellow fever, dengue, West Nile virus, encephalitis, and the tiny worms that cause elephantiasis.

It notes some of the critical scientific questions regarding Zika that deserve further exploration, including: whether certain viral mutations occurred to facilitate its geographical spread; if different species of Aedes mosquitoes are capable of transmitting Zika and what that may mean for future transmission; what is apparently unique to Zika compared to other more well - known flaviviruses, such as dengue, that can explain why it can cause congenital infections, neurological conditions and encephalitis, transmit sexually and persist for long periods of time in multiple parts of the human body; and whether preexisting immunity to other related flaviviruses may impact Zika exposure and infection.

In the mid-1980s he had a rare form of encephalitis caused by a virus, a herpes encephalitis.

Vaccines made from the brains of infected animals protect humans and animals, but the serum can contain impurities which cause encephalitis — a dangerous inflammation of the brain.

Flaviviruses are the cause of diseases spread by mosquitoes (e.g., dengue fever and West Nile fever) and by ticks (e.g., Powassan virus disease and tick - borne encephalitis).

It causes listeriosis, a group of life - threatening diseases that include meningitis, encephalitis, pneumonia, septicemia, and intrauterine or cervical infections in pregnant women.

Less than a decade ago, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis was first identified, a disease characterized by inflammation of the brain that causes acute psychiatric symptoms including psychosis.

After infection, some healthy people experience a month or more of flu - like symptoms, but the disease can cause seizures and potentially fatal encephalitis in the immunocompromised, including patients receiving transplants, those with HIV / AIDS, cancer patients, the elderly, and young children.

Encephalitis caused by the immune system attacking the brain is similar in frequency to encephalitis from infections, Mayo Clinic researchers report in Annals oEncephalitis caused by the immune system attacking the brain is similar in frequency to encephalitis from infections, Mayo Clinic researchers report in Annals oencephalitis from infections, Mayo Clinic researchers report in Annals of Neurology.

«The results of our study suggest that doctors evaluating patients with encephalitis should search for autoimmune causes in addition to infectious causes, given both have a similar frequency,» says Eoin Flanagan, M.B., B.Ch., senior author of the population - based study and an autoimmune neurology specialist at Mayo Clinic.

Smeyne suspects that all flu viruses, including the current H1N1 swine flu pandemic, could cause symptoms of encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain.

Encephalitis can be caused by a large number of viruses, bacteria and parasites, and identifying novel pathogens in wild animals is a huge and often insurmountable challenge.

«After a detailed necropsy and histology that took several intense days to perform, the results clearly suggested that the underlying cause of Knut's seizures was a result of encephalitis, most likely of viral origin» says Dr Szentiks.

Most of his research has focused on reovirus, an important experimental model for studies of viral encephalitis in the young, and chikungunya virus, an emerging mosquito - borne virus that causes epidemics of fever and arthritis.

For example, the counterintuitive management strategy in such an encephalitis case would be to suppress the immune system — not a therapeutic intervention one would necessarily consider in the case of a pathogen caused disease.

A necropsy performed at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) determined that Knut had inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) and suggested the cause was an infectious agent.

According to Dr. Levy, megadoses of vitamin C are capable of destroying the pathogens that cause measles, mumps, viral encephalitis, herpes, mononucleosis, viral pneumonia, chickenpox, Ebola and influenza.

Secondary epilepsy (also known as «Symptomatic epilepsy») is when the fits are being caused by another brain disorder such a brain tumour, an inflammation or infection of the brain (encephalitis), a brain malformation, a recent or previous stroke or head trauma.

Encephalitis: an inflammatory condition of the brain causing signs of central nervous system dysfunction and epilepsy (seizures).

There are two broad categories of encephalitis in dogs: infectious causes and non-infectious causes.

Causes of seizures from within the brain (structural abnormalities of the brain) include brain tumors, strokes, encephalitis or meningitis, congenital abnormalities (such as hydrocephalus), head trauma, degenerative or storage diseases, infection and other cCauses of seizures from within the brain (structural abnormalities of the brain) include brain tumors, strokes, encephalitis or meningitis, congenital abnormalities (such as hydrocephalus), head trauma, degenerative or storage diseases, infection and other causescauses.

Infection / Inflammation Any cause of meningo - encephalitis may result in involvement of central vestibular structures.

There are several other encephalitis or menigoencephalomyelitis conditions that can cause these types of signs.

Inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) can occur for a number of reasons and from a number of different causes.

All of our evidence ties in with research in the human field, and a growing body of veterinary research, which says that vaccines cause allergies, hypersensitivity reactions, autoimmune disease, encephalitis, epilepsy, personality changes and brain damage.

Vaccinations, especially when used in excess of what is needed, are suspected of causing many serious problems in dogs: seizures, pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel disease, encephalitis, and even the very diseases they are supposed to protect your dog against!

Pug Dog Encephalitis is a fatal swelling of the brain that causes seizures, lethargy, loss of muscle control, and watermelons.

Other disorders that can cause clinical signs of an abnormal gait include brain infections (encephalitis), toxins, injury, spinal cord disorders, luxating patellas, and other musculoskeletal abnormalities.

A CSF tap can rule out other causes of myeloencephalitis such as viral encephalitis (canine distemper), parasitic encephalitis (toxoplasma), fungal encephalitis (Cryptococcus spp.), and congenital encephalitis (breed inherited CNS lesions).

Composed of multiple meticulously - constructed structures of wire, sewn fabric patches, wire cleaner, and plastic suspended in the space, the installation draws inspiration from the rhizomatic structure of the brain and its circuitry after the artist's father suffered an episode of encephalitis that caused damage to the speech and language area of the brain.

The aim of the campaign is to make World Encephalitis Day the first time that people connect with or hear about Encephalitis enabling a better understanding of the devastation that can be caused by the condition.

In April 2010, she was advised that she had been suffering from herpes simplex encephalitis in October 2007 and that this was the cause of her problems.

Because encephalitis is such a serious condition, hospitalization will generally be required so that your condition can be closely monitored as doctors attempt to combat the cause of your infection.

When we look at some of the potential risk factors associated with contracting encephalitis, some of the «risk» factors may also be a cause of concern for the insurance companies as well.

Maddux developed encephalitis, a viral infection that causes swelling of the brain, shortly after she was born.