Clinical presentation | Possible infectious agent(s) |
General findings | |
Hepatitis | HSV (especially in infants), enterovirus (especially in infants), Coxiella burnetii; any severe encephalitis causing impaired systemic perfusion can cause hepatitis due to shock liver |
Lymphadenopathy | HIV, EBV, cytomegalovirus, measles virus, rubella virus, WNV, Treponema pallidum, Bartonella henselae and other Bartonella species, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Toxoplasma gondii, Trypansoma brucei gambiense |
Parotitis | Mumps virus |
Rash | HSV, VZV, herpes B virus, human herpesvirus 6, WNV, rubella virus, some enteroviruses, HIV, Rickettsia rickettsii, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Borrelia burgdorferi, Treponema pallidum, Ehrlichia chaffeensis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum |
Respiratory tract findings | Influenza virus, adenovirus, M. pneumoniae, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, Nipha virus, Hendra virus, C. burnetii, M. tuberculosis, Histoplasma capsulatum |
Retinitis | Cytomegalovirus, T. gondii, WNV, B. henselae, T. pallidum |
Urinary symptoms (dysuria, urgency, incontinence) | St. Louis encephalitis virus (during prodrome) |
Neurologic findings | |
Cerebellar ataxia | Enteroviruses (especially A71), VZV, EBV, mumps virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, Tropheryma whipplei, T. brucei gambiense |
Cranial nerve abnormalities | HSV, enteroviruses, EBV, Listeria monocytogenes, M. tuberculosis, T. pallidum, B. burgdorferi, T. whipplei, Cryptococcus neoformans, Coccidioides species, H. capsulatum |
Dementia | HIV, human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (sCJD and vCJD), measles, T. pallidum, T. whipplei |
Myorhythmia | T. whipplei (oculomasticatory) |
Parkinsonism (bradykinesia, masked facies, cogwheel rigidity, postural instability) | Japanese encephalitis virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, WNV, Nipah virus, T. gondii, T. brucei gambiense |
Poliomyelitis-like flaccid paralysis | Japanese encephalitis virus, WNV, tick-borne encephalitis virus, enteroviruses (enterovirus 71, coxsackieviruses, poliovirus) |
Rhomboencephalitis | Enterovirus 71, HSV, WNV, L. monocytogenes |
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