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Episode 39 - Infectious Encephalitis

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The Different Types of Arboviruses

Most of the testing for this is actually going to be more based on immunoglobulin so CSF IgM, CRM IgM and IgG. There doesn't really seem to be any strong evidence at least at this point for a specific antiviral or anti-inflammatory agents. With that as kind of a broad overview we can talk a little bit about some of these more specific viruses. The biggest group that I wanted to touch on is going to be the flaviviruses. This would include the Japanese encephalitis virus, St. Louis encephalitisirus, West Nile and then one that's emerging isGoing to be Powassan virus.

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