epidemic encephalitis meaning

• Noun: epidemic encephalitis  `epi'demik en`sefu'lItis
  1. An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
     - sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica

  Type of: cephalitis, encephalitis, phrenitis [archaic]

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  [Medicine]
  Infections of the brain caused by arthopod-borne viruses (i.e.,arboviruses) primarily from the families TOGAVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; BUNYAVIRIDAE; REOVIRIDAE; and RHABDOVIRIDAE. Life cycles of these viruses are characterized by ZOONOSES,with birds and lower mammals serving as intermediate hosts. The virus is transmitted to humans by the bite of mosquitoes (CULICIDAE) or TICKS. Clinical manifestations include fever,headache,alterations of mentation,focal neurologic deficits,and COMA. (From Clin Microbiol Rev 1994 Jan;7(1):89-116; Walton,Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System,10th ed,p321)

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• encephalitis:    Noun: encephalitis ...
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Examples

1. diagnostic technique of epidemic encephalitis b
2. development and application of attenuated living epidemic encephalitis b vaccine
3. analysis of epdemiological supervision on epidemic encephalitis in shi yan in 11 years
4. analysis on epidemic situation of epidemic encephalitis b in bobai county from 1999 to
5. therapeutic observation on tanreqing injection in treating23 cases of epidemic encephalitis b