Open AccessEpidemiology of Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis in Eastern Siberia
Author(s) -
Hee Suk Lee,
С. Н. Жданова,
Vsevolod A. Vladimirtsev,
F.A. Platonov,
Vladimir L. Osakovskiy,
Ekaterina Subbotina,
Oleg Broytman,
A. P. Danilova,
Raisa S. Nikitina,
А. А. Чепурнов,
Vadim G. Krivoshapkin,
D. Carleton Gajdusek,
Yevgeniy D. Savilov,
Ralph M. Garruto,
Lev G. Goldfarb
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0b013e3181c30fd2
Subject(s) - epidemiology , encephalomyelitis , geography , medicine , virology , multiple sclerosis , immunology , pathology
Viliuisk encephalomyelitis is a disorder that starts, in most cases, as an acute meningoencephalitis. Survivors of the acute phase develop a slowly progressing neurologic syndrome characterized by dementia, dysarthria, and spasticity. An epidemic of this disease has been spreading throughout the Yakut Republic of the Russian Federation. Although clinical, neuropathologic, and epidemiologic data suggest infectious etiology, multiple attempts at pathogen isolation have been unsuccessful.