Enterovirus 71 encephalomyelitis and Japanese encephalitis can be distinguished by topographic distribution of inflammation and specific intraneuronal detection of viral antigen and RNA

• Main Authors: Wong, K.T., Ng, K.Y., Ong, K.C., Ng, W.F, Shankar, S.K., Mahadevan, A., Radotra, B., Su, I.J., Lau, G., Ling, A.E., Chan, K.P., Macorelles, P., Vallet, S., Cardosa, Mary Jane, Desai, A., Ravi, V., Nagata, N., Shimizu, H., Takasaki, T.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: British Neuropathological Society 2012
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QR355 Virology; R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6697/1/Enterovirus.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6697/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22236252/

Aims: To investigate if two important epidemic viral encephalitis in children, Enterovirus 71 (EV71)e ncephalomyelitis and Japanese encephalitis (JE) whose clinical and pathological features may be nonspecific and overlapping, could be distinguished. Methods: Tissue sections from the central ne...