Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Acute Encephalitis Caused by Intrafamilial Transmission of Enterovirus 71 in Adult

Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi*†

, Hironori Fujisawa‡, Kenji Sakai†, Soichi Okino†, Naoko Kurosaki§, Yorihiro Nishimura¶, Hiroyuki Shimizu¶, and Masahito Yamada*

Author affiliations: *Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan; †Ishikawa Prefecture Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan; ‡Fujii Neurosurgical Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan; §Ishikawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science, Kanazawa, Japan; ¶National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan;

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Magnetic resonance images of the brain. A) Hyperintense lesions in the tegmentum of the pons in the axial section of the fluid-attenuated inversion recovery image. B) In the sagittal section of the T2-weighted image, hyperintense lesions are present in the tegmentum of the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata.

Figure 1. Magnetic resonance images of the brain. A) Hyperintense lesions in the tegmentum of the pons in the axial section of the fluid-attenuated inversion recovery image. B) In the sagittal section of the T2-weighted image, hyperintense lesions are present in the tegmentum of the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata.

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