Sand-fly Fever and Benign Lymphocytic Meningitis

Recurrent benign lymphocytic meningitis.

Recurrent benign lymphocytic meningitis is a recurring, typically innocuous, painful form of aseptic meningitis. This syndrome is associated with transient neurological symptoms in one-half of afflicted patients. The causative agent is usually herpes simplex virus type 2, which can be confirmed by detection of viral DNA in the cerebrospinal fluid using polymerase chain reaction. Clinical diseas...

Benign Lymphocytic Meningitis: (Acute Aseptic Meningitis)

Sand Fly Fever with Different Names

A Case Report entitled “Sand fly Fever with Skin Lesions: A Case Series from Turkey” was published in 2016 (Fatih Temocin, et al. 2016). Different names such as “Phlebotomus fever”, ‘’mosquito fever’’, three-day fever or “Papatasi fever” called the disease of Sand fly fever which all are true except ‘’mosquito fever’’ (Tavana 2001, 2015). Mosquito is not a general name in English and is used ju...

The Dengue-Sand-Fly Fever Problem

have been described; other writers apply the name of the place in which the outbreak has been seen and so suggest that the disease is peculiar to that locality. The claim for the discovery of a new disease would, in most cases, have been recognised to be unjustified if the authors had been aware of the following facts in connection with the fevers of the dengue group I. Fevers of the dengue-san...

sand fly fever with different names

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