why does typhoid fever leads to encephalitis and eventually leading to meningitis?
Typhoid fever is caused by a bacteria, Salmonella typhi. This particular bacteria can grow and multiply in your macrophages/monocytes, which are a type of white blood cell. This allows the bacteria to move around to other body tissues and organs as well as in the blood stream, which will lead to eventual infection of the brain and spinal column (
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How can Encephalitis be transmitted?
how does it spred? how does this happen?
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Some types of encephalitis, such as that caused by West Nile virus, do not spread easily from person to person, although they can be spread by transfusion or organ transplant. Other encephalitis viruses, such as measles, spread very easily among unvaccinated people.
These infections may be brief or prolonged. Children may recover completely or suffer lifelong consequences. The affects of adults can be much different.
Measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and even rabies encephalitis may be prevented by appropriately timed vaccines. Other types of encephalitis may be prevented by avoiding mosquito bites.
Fecal-oral transmission precautions are the best way to prevent enteroviral infections, the most common cause of encephalitis in places where vaccines are commonly used. Careful hand washing before eating and after toileting or diaper changes is essential. This is an important hygiene lesson to teach our children.
Look at the link below for Mayo Clinic. They have more answers to your questions.
I was infected with the West Nile Virus 4 years ago. It took over 3 months for most of my symptoms to go away. I still have stiffness in my neck and dizziness on and off to this day due to it.
Good luck to you, I wish you my best. (
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Can a person get encephalitis with just one mosquito bite?
The virus is transferred to a human when an infected mosquito sucks that person’s blood. Once in the body, the virus travels to various glands where it multiplies. The virus can then enter the bloodstream. Ultimately, the virus settles in the brain, where it causes serious problems. (
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encephalitis in a dog? Could anyone tell me the out come please?
My dog is currently ill with this condition and was interested to see if anyone could help me understand her prognosis?
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This link is the best reference for information that I can give you. There are several forms of encephalitis in canines, some with unknown causes. Others can be viral, bacterial or fungal.
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/101600.htm (
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what type of organism is viral encephalitis?
we have to do a science project concerning this disease and our teacher wants us to find out what kind of organism it is. if anybody knows that would be a great help, or just explaining what that means also would be greatly apprecaited
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Viral encephalitis is a disease that mainly affects the brain, causing acute inflammation. As the name implies, it's caused by a virus, such as Herpes Simplex virus (HSV).
Viral encephalitis can be due either to the direct effects of an acute infection, or as one of the sequelae of a latent infection.
U can read more about it here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis (
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What treatments are there for micro encephalitis disease?
any details about micro encephalitis
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Microencephalitis is the inflammation of the brain, which in infections usually involves the central nervous system. Encephalitis in general can be caused by bacterial infections that involve possible organisms such as Neisseria meningitidis (etiologic agent of epidemic spinal meningitis), Streptococcus penumoniae (etiologic agent of pneumonia, which can possibly cause encephalopathies as well), and Haemophilus influenzae (possible bacterial meningitis agent).
The microencephalitis disease is caused mainly by parasitic amoebae and protozoan organisms such as the pathogenic organisms under the genus Acanthamoeba and Naegleria fowleri. Infections in the central nervous system, if left untreated, reaches almost 100% mortality, since or CNS controls almost all of the important body functions which include motor skills and cognition. So far, an effective treatment for encephalopathic infections is administration of the antibiotic amphoterecin b, along with rifampicin.
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Has anyone heard of treating post encephalitis with effexor?
My mom had encephalitis in Januray 2005 and has just started on effexor to help with her energy.
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isn't effexor a SSRI? It has nothing to do with encephalitis. Perhaps the effexor was for anxiety and/or depression (
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how much does it cost to get treatment for Japanese encephalitis?
depends on the hospital, insurance, location in the country where you are being treated, decisions made by the medical staff, etc. It also depends on your clinical course. If you have to go to the ICU or have surgery, the costs can skyrocket. (
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what are the different body systems affected by japanese encephalitis?
Signs which develop during the acute encephalitic stage include neck rigidity, cachexia, hemiparesis, convulsions and a raised body temperature between 38 and 41 degrees Celsius. Mental retardation developed from this disease usually leads to coma. Mortality of this disease varies but is generally much higher in children. Life-long neurological defects such as deafness, emotional lability and hemiparesis may occur in those who have had central nervous system involvement. (
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Is encephalitis can be transmitted through air?
No. The mode of transmission of most viral encephalitis (eastern equine, japanese, venezuelan, etc) is by mosquitoes. (
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