التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Increased Recognition of Powassan Encephalitis in the United States, 1999–2005. |
| المؤلفون: |
Steven R. Hinten, Geoffrey A. Beckett, Kathleen F. Gensheimer, Elizabeth Pritchard, Thomas M. Courtney, Stephen D. Sears, John M. Woytowicz, David G. Preston, Robert P. Smith Jr., Peter W. Rand, Eleanor H. Lacombe, Mary S. Holman, Charles B. Lubelczyk, Patsy Tassler Kelso, Andrew P. Beelen, Mary Grace Stobierski, Mark J. Sotir, Susan Wong, Gregory Ebel, Olga Kosoy |
| المصدر: |
Vector-Borne & Zoonotic Diseases; Dec2008, Vol. 8 Issue 6, p733-740, 8p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ENCEPHALITIS, POWASSAN (Disease), PUBLIC health, INFECTIOUS disease transmission, CEREBROSPINAL fluid, SKUNKS |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED States, MAINE, MICHIGAN |
| مستخلص: |
Powassan virus (POWV) disease is a rare human disease caused by a tick-borne encephalitis group flavivirus maintained in a transmission cycle between Ixodes cookeiand other ixodid ticks and small and medium-sized mammals. During 1958–1998, only 27 POWV disease cases (mostly Powassan encephalitis) were reported from eastern Canada and the northeastern United States (average, 0.7 cases per year). During 1999–2005, nine cases (described herein) of serologically confirmed POWV disease were reported in the United States (average, 1.3 cases per year) four from Maine, two from New York, and one each from Michigan, Vermont, and Wisconsin. The Michigan and Wisconsin cases are the first ever reported from the north-central United States. Of these nine patients, 5 (56) were men, the median age was 69 years (range 25-91 years), and 6 (67) had onset during May–July. All but one patient developed encephalitis with acute onset of profound muscle weakness, confusion, and other severe neurologic signs. In one case, no neurologic symptoms were present but the presence of pleocytosis, an elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protein concentration, and POWV-specific immunoglobulin M in CSF suggested neuroinvasion. All patients recovered from their acute disease, but most had long-term neurologic sequelae. Periresidential ecologic investigations were performed in three cases, including tests of local mammals and ticks for evidence of POWV infection. Woodchucks (Marmota monax), striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), and a raccoon (Procyon lotor) collected at two of the Maine case-patients'' residences had neutralizing antibody titers to POWV. I. cookeiwere found on woodchucks and skunks and questing in grassy areas of one of these residences; all were negative for POWV. Although POWV disease is rare, it is probably under-recognized, and it causes significant morbidity, and thus is an additional tick-borne emerging infectious disease entity. Because no vaccine or specific therapy is available, the basis of prevention is personal protection from ticks (or “tick hygiene”) and reduced exposure to peridomestic wild mammals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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