West nile virus differential diagnosis

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

West nile fever must be differentiated from other diseases that cause, fever, skin rash, myalgias, and back pain, such as other viral infections due to rhinovirus, enterovirus D68, coxsackievirus, influenza, enterovirus . Severe west nile virus infection may present as meningitis, encephalitis or flaccid paralysis and must be differentiated from other diseases that cause severe headache, altered mental status, seizures, and paralysis, such as: herpes virus encephalitis, enterovirus encephalitis, bacterial encephalitis, metabolic encephalitis, poliomyelitis, and Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Differential Diagnosis

West Nile Fever

Differential Diagnosis

Severe West Nile Virus Infection

West Nile Virus Presentation Differential Diagnosis
West Nile Virus Encephalitis and Meningitis Herpes simplex virus, coxsackievirus, echovirus, other arbovirus, metabolic encephalopathy
West Nile Virus Flaccid Paralysis Acute poliomyelitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, stroke, myasthenia gravis

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