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Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after Rocky Mountain spotted fever
1Department of Neurology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Illinois 60637, USA.
Pediatric Neurology
|July 31, 1999
Abstract:
Although acute disseminated encephalomyelitis has been observed after a variety of viral infections and an occasional bacterial infection, it has not been reported in association with rickettsial infections. Reported is a 7-year-old male with magnetic resonance images and clinical manifestations suggestive of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after a tick bite and serologically proven Rocky Mountain spotted fever.