title: Kleine-Levin syndrome and encephalitis.
abstract: Kleine-Levin Syndrome is characterized by hypersomnolence, hyperphagia and sexual disinhibition. The article reported a case of 10-year-old boy with a two-week history of altered sensorium, irrelevant talks, markedly increasing appetite and tendency to sleep most of the times. Immediately preceding to it the child had been an episode of enteric fever confirmed by the serological tests.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Pt. B.D. Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak (Haryana), India. reachsujata@rediffmail.com
authors.forename: Sujata
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sethi
authors.forename: Subhash C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Bhargava
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D017593:Kleine-Levin Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male