Acute encephalitis caused by intrafamilial transmission of enterovirus 71 in adult.
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.
Hamaguchi
Tsuyoshi
T
Department of Neurology and Neurobiology of Aging, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, 13-1, Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan. gom56@med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Fujisawa
Hironori
H
Sakai
Kenji
K
Okino
Soichi
S
Kurosaki
Naoko
N
Nishimura
Yorihiro
Y
Shimizu
Hiroyuki
H
Yamada
Masahito
M
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology; D018792:Encephalitis, Viral / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology*; D029821:Enterovirus A, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004769:Enterovirus Infections / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006232:Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male