title: Fulminant Epstein Barr virus encephalitis.
abstract: Epstein Barr virus (EBV) encephalitis is rare in children but can have severe neurological complications and sometimes fatal. It can manifest with varied neurological presentations like meningoencephalitis, brain stem encephalitis, GBS etc. This can appear alone or with clinical picture of infectious mononucleosis. Establishing a diagnosis of EBV encephalitis is difficult and consequently molecular, serological and imaging techniques should be used when investigating a child with encephalitis. To highlight this entity we report two fatal cases of EBV meningoencephalitis presenting with sole neurological manifestations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Al-Jahra Hospital, Kuwait. docaji@gmail.com
authors.forename: Aji George
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Mathew
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Parvez
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D018792:Encephalitis, Viral / Q000175:diagnosis*; D020031:Epstein-Barr Virus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male