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| ==Overview== | | ==Overview== |
| Electroencephalographic results often show generalized slowing without focal activity.<ref name=SLEVOSU>ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS DISEASE.(2015). http://www.odh.ohio.gov/pdf/idcm/sle.pdf Accessed on July 27, 2016</ref><ref name="pmid10634457">{{cite journal| author=Wasay M, Diaz-Arrastia R, Suss RA, Kojan S, Haq A, Burns D et al.| title=St Louis encephalitis: a review of 11 cases in a 1995 Dallas, Tex, epidemic. | journal=Arch Neurol | year= 2000 | volume= 57 | issue= 1 | pages= 114-8 | pmid=10634457 | doi= | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=10634457 }} </ref><ref name=EEGMC>EEG (Electroencephalograph). Mayo Clinic (2016). http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/eeg/basics/definition/PRC-20014093?p=1 Accessed July 27, 2016</ref>
| | [[Ultrasound]]-guided [[Needle aspiration biopsy|aspiration]], via transdural insonation, has proven to show excellent [[abscess]] visualization when performed through a [[burr hole]]. |
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| | At the time of [[Needle aspiration biopsy|aspiration]], specimens should be sent for [[Gram stain]] and routine [[aerobic]] and [[anaerobic]] cultures.<ref name=IDSLEV>John E. Bennett, Raphael Dolin, Martin J. Blaser "Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases" (2014): 1171.</ref> |
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| ==Other Diagnostic Studies== | | ==Other Diagnostic Studies== |
| ===EEG=== | | ===Ultrasound=== |
| Electroencephalographic results often show generalized slowing without focal activity. Electroencephalograph may be helpful in determining whether the patient remains in a [[persistent vegetative state]] or is brain dead ([[brain death]]).<ref name=SLEVOSU>ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS DISEASE.(2015). http://www.odh.ohio.gov/pdf/idcm/sle.pdf Accessed on July 27, 2016</ref><ref name="pmid10634457">{{cite journal| author=Wasay M, Diaz-Arrastia R, Suss RA, Kojan S, Haq A, Burns D et al.| title=St Louis encephalitis: a review of 11 cases in a 1995 Dallas, Tex, epidemic. | journal=Arch Neurol | year= 2000 | volume= 57 | issue= 1 | pages= 114-8 | pmid=10634457 | doi= | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=10634457 }} </ref><ref name=EEGMC>EEG (Electroencephalograph). Mayo Clinic (2016). http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/eeg/basics/definition/PRC-20014093?p=1 Accessed July 27, 2016</ref>
| | [[Ultrasound]]-guided [[Needle aspiration biopsy|aspiration]], via transdural insonation, has proven to show excellent [[abscess]] visualization when performed through a [[burr hole]]. |
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| ==Gallery==
| | At the time of [[Needle aspiration biopsy|aspiration]], specimens should be sent for [[Gram stain]] and routine [[aerobic]] and [[anaerobic]] cultures.<ref name=IDSLEV>John E. Bennett, Raphael Dolin, Martin J. Blaser "Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases" (2014): 1171.</ref> |
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| Image: Flavivirus11.jpeg| Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) reveals the presence of numerous St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virions contained inside a neuron. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| Image: Flavivirus10.jpeg| Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) reveals the presence of numerous St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virions that were contained inside a central nervous system tissue sample. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| Image: Flavivirus09.jpeg| Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) reveals the presence of numerous St. Louis encephalitis virions that were contained within a mosquito salivary gland tissue sample. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| Image: Flavivirus08.jpeg| Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) reveals the presence of numerous St. Louis encephalitis virions that were contained within a tissue sample. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| Image: Flavivirus05.jpeg| Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) reveals the presence of numerous St. Louis encephalitis virions that were contained within a central nervous system tissue sample. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| Image: Flavivirus04.jpeg| (TEM) depicts a number of round, Dengue virus particles that were revealed in this tissue specimen. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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