[Encephalitic syndrome caused by flavivirus diagnosed after return from a voyage to South India: probably dengue with neurological manifestations]

The authors report the case of a flavivirus encephalitis (probable Dengue) in a 70 year old female, occurring twenty days after a fewer of unknown origin, contracted in the South of India. Most of the cases of such encephalitis have been reported from children, but they may occur also in adults.