Society guideline links: Infectious encephalitis

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Bacterial meningitis in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Immunizations in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: TORCH infections".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Tick-borne infections (Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever)".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Delirium and confusional states in older adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Opportunistic infections in individuals with HIV".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Immunizations in children and adolescents".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Bacterial meningitis in infants and children".)

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Japanese encephalitis position paper (2015)

●International Encephalitis Consortium (IEC): Consensus statement on case definitions, diagnostic algorithms, and priorities in encephalitis (2013)

●WHO: Tick-borne encephalitis vaccines position paper (2011)

Canada

●Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Canadian Immunization Guide

•Japanese encephalitis vaccine (2023)

•Rabies vaccine (2015)

●Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT): Statement on prevention of Japanese encephalitis (2023)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement for the prevention and management of neonatal herpes simplex virus infections (2020)

United States

●Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Vaccine-specific recommendations

•Japanese encephalitis vaccine recommendations

•Rabies vaccine recommendations

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): West Nile virus resources

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book (2024)

•Arboviruses

•Herpes simplex

•Prevention of mosquito-borne and tick-borne infections

•Rabies

•West Nile virus

●CDC: Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines – Genital herpes (2021)

●American Society of Transplantation (AST): Guidelines on arenaviruses and West Nile virus in solid organ transplant recipients (2019)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of encephalitis (ARCHIVED; published 2008)

Europe

●European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Vaccine scheduler

●European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS): Viral meningoencephalitis – A review of diagnostic methods and guidelines for management (2010)

United Kingdom

●UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA): The Green Book – Immunisation against infectious disease

•Japanese encephalitis (2013, updated 2024)

•Tick-borne encephalitis (2013)

●UKHSA: Guidance on tick-borne encephalitis – Epidemiology, diagnosis and prevention (2019, updated 2023)

●UKHSA: Guidance on rabies – Risk assessment, post-exposure treatment, management (2014, updated 2022)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on fever in under 5s – Assessment and initial management (2019, updated 2021)

●Public Heath England (PHE): Guidance on Nipah virus – Epidemiology, outbreaks, and guidance (2018, updated 2019)

●PHE: Guidance on West Nile virus – Epidemiology, diagnosis, and prevention (2013, updated 2018)

●Association of British Neurologists (ABN) and British Infection Association (BIA): National guidelines for the management of suspected viral encephalitis in adults (2012)

●ABN and British Paediatric Allergy, Immunology and Infection Group (BPAIIG): National guidelines for the management of suspected viral encephalitis in children (2012)

India

●National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP): Guidelines – AES/Japanese encephalitis

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI): The Australian Immunisation Handbook

•Vaccination for international travellers (2023)

•Japanese encephalitis (2022)

●Communicable Disease Network Australia (CDNA): National guidelines for public health units on rabies virus and other lyssavirus (including Australian bat lyssavirus) exposures and infections (2024)

●CDNA: National guidelines for public health units on Murray Valley encephalitis virus (2013)