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Encephalitis Table

• Demyelination disorders (MS, ADEM)
• Substance Abuse
• Electrolyte imbalance (hypo/hyper natremia)
• Stroke
• Brain Hemmhorage
• Trauma
• Tumor

Disease	Findings
Meningitis	Photophobia, phonophobia, rash associated with meningococcemia,
Brain abscess	Brain abscess presents with an abscess in the brain caused by the inflammation and accumulation of infected material from local or remote infectious areas of the body; the infectious agent may also be introduced as a result of head trauma or neurological procedures.
Demyelinating diseases	Demyelinating diseases
Lassa fever	Disease onset is usually gradual, with fever, sore throat, cough, pharyngitis, and facial edema in the later stages. Inflammation and exudation of the pharynx and conjunctiva are common.
Yellow fever and other Flaviviridae	Present with hemorrhagic complications. Epidemiological investigation may reveal a pattern of disease transmission by an insect vector. Virus isolation and serological investigation serves to distinguish these viruses. Confirmed history of previous yellow fever vaccination will rule out yellow fever.
Shigellosis & other bacterial enteric infections	Presents with diarrhea, possibly bloody, accompanied by fever, nausea, and toxemia, vomiting, cramps, and tenesmus. Stools contain blood and mucous in a typical case. A search for possible sites of bacterial infection, together with cultures and blood smears, should be made. Presence of leukocytosis distinguishes bacterial infections from viral infections.
Ebola	Presents with fever, chills vomiting, diarrhea, generalized pain or malaise, and internal and external bleeding, that follow an incubation period of 2-21 days.
Others	Scarlet fever, leptospirosis, viral hepatitis, typhus, and mononucleosis can produce signs and symptoms that may be confused with rheumatic fever in early stages of infection.