VIRAL ETIOLOGIES OF ENCEPHALITIS IN THAI CHILDREN

Authors :: Uraiwan Kositanont
Kulkanya Chokephaibulkit
Sutee Yoksan
Somchai Apintanapong
Pongkiat Kankirawatana
Viroj Pongthapisit
Pilaipan Puthavathana
Source :: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 20:216-218
Publication Year :: 2001
Publisher :: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2001.
Abstract: A prospective study of childhood encephalitis was performed in Bangkok from 1996 through 1998. The viral agents identifiable in 26 (65%) of 40 children were dengue virus (8), Japanese encephalitis (6), herpes simplex virus (4), human herpes virus type 6 (3), mumps (2), enterovirus (1), varicella-zoster virus (VZV) (1) and rabies (1).