Current re-emergence of Nipah virus (NiV) in India caused 11 deaths so far and many patients were kept in quarantine. A thorough study of previous outbreaks occurred in Malaysia, Bangladesh and India represents cases with high rate of fatality due to acute encephalitis. Our work involves genome analysis of NiV for prediction of miRNAs and their targeted genes in human in order to understand enc...

A study to determine the possible role of Japanese encephalitis in the Nipah encephalitis outbreak among pig-farm workers in Malaysia in 1998/1999 was done. Two hundred and twelve patients who fulfilled the criteria of Nipah encephalitis from three epicentres during the outbreak were retrospectively analysed. Twenty-nine of these patients (14%) had positive IgM serology for Japanese encephaliti...

In our case, we present a case of 27-year-old male who presented with progressively worsening altered mental status and seizures. Over the course his admission to hospital intensive care unit, laboratory testing failed find an offending agent presentation. Testing did result in diagnosis encephalitis, but underlying cause was not found. After careful exclusion bacterial, viral, other types ence...

Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is probably the most common paraneoplastic encephalitis. In children, seizures, behavioral disturbances and abnormal movements are the most frequent symptoms. Electroencephalogram is abnormal in most patients. We report a child with antiNMDAR encephalitis presenting extreme delta brushes in the EEG. This new EEG feature is described in pat...

Anti N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis is one of the most common types of autoimmune synaptic encephalitis. Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis commonly occurs in young women with ovarian teratoma. It has variable clinical manifestations and treatment responses. Sometimes it is misdiagnosed as a psychiatric disorder or viral encephalitis. To the best of our knowledge, anti-NMDA rece...

Encephalitis is the inflammation of brain which usually caused by viral infections, but it can be also due to other non-infectious agents. We report an interesting case anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis with Haemophilus influenzae co-infection in association severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, without pulmonary involvement or fever.

In the article by Jiménez-Ruiz et al., entitled “Neuro-logic manifestations of COVID-19”,1 it was concluded that “we must bear in mind infectious and non-infec-tious complications affect nervous system such as encephalitis, seizures, Guillain-Barre syndrome, dis-seminated encephalomyelitis hemorrhagic leuko-encephalitis, which are disorders can occur during or after viral infections.

Encephalitis is a brain inflammation, which could involve also the meninges. The etiology of encephalitis could be: viral, bacterial, fungal or autoimmune. Anti-NMDAR encephalitis is an immune disorder, easy to diagnose and is a treatable condition. Most patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis develop a multistage illness that progresses from psychosis, memory deficits, seizures, to catatonic sta...