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nouninflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)
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- acute inclusion body encephalitis common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes
- west nile encephalitis encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus; can be fatal in humans and horses and birds
- subacute inclusion body encephalitis a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults; death usually occurs within three years; characterized by primary measles infection before the age of two years
- l. monocytogenes the type species of the genus Listeria; can cause meningitis, encephalitis, septicemia, endocarditis, abortion, abscesses, listeriosis
- herpes encephalitis common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes
- bosin's disease a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults; death usually occurs within three years; characterized by primary measles infection before the age of two years
- sleeping sickness an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
- epidemic encephalitis an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
- alphavirus an arbovirus of the family Togaviridae that can cause a variety of encephalitis in horses
- west nile encephalitis virus the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis