Emerging epidemic viral encephalitides with a special focus on henipaviruses

• Main Author: Wong, Kum Thong
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer Verlag 2010
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RB Pathology
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/1341/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-010-0720-z
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

In the last few decades, there is an increasing emergence and re-emergence of viruses, such as West Nile virus, Enterovirus 71 and henipaviruses that cause epidemic viral encephalitis and other central nervous system (CNS) manifestations. The mortality and morbidity associated with these outbreaks a...