[Acute postinfectious encephalomyelitis. A case report]

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, an infrequent demyelinating disease, complicates some common infections of childhood and is sometimes seen after vaccination particularly after rabies vaccination. We describe a six years old girl who had an upper respiratory tract infection two weeks prior to death. In a retrospective analysis we found that she also had received 14 doses of rabies vaccine eight months before her illness. The clinical and pathological features of this disease and its relationship with experimental allergic encephalomyelitis are analyzed.