West Nile virus infection presenting as cerebellar ataxia and fever: case report.
Evidence of West Nile encephalitis virus infection has been documented in most states of the continental United States within a short period of its first introduction in 1999. Health care providers are mostly aware of the usual presentations of this disease, eg, aseptic meningitis, encephalitis and Guillain-Barré syndrome. We present a patient whose only manifestations were cerebellar ataxia and fever.
Kanagarajan
Karthikeyan
K
Department of Medicine, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY 11235, USA.
Ganesh
Sivajini
S
Alakhras
Mazen
M
Go
Eddie S
ES
Recco
Rose A
RA
Zaman
Muhammad M
MM
D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D002524:Cerebellar Ataxia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D009033:Culicidae / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*