Volume 9, Number 2—February 2003
Research
Viral Encephalitis in England, 1989–1998: What Did We Miss?
Katy L. Davison*
, Natasha S. Crowcroft*, Mary E. Ramsay*, David W.G. Brown†, and Nick J Andrews*
, Natasha S. Crowcroft*, Mary E. Ramsay*, David W.G. Brown†, and Nick J Andrews*Table 4
A comparison of cases and deaths attributed to viral encephalitis with a specific diagnosis identified through hospital episode statistics, the laboratory reporting system, and the Office of National Statistics, Englanda
| Diagnosis | Cases |
Deaths |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HESb | Laboratory reportsb | Estimate of underreporting in laboratory reports (%) | HESc | ONSc | Estimate of underreporting in laboratory reports (%) | |
| Herpes |
1,308 |
353 |
73 |
85 |
104 |
22 |
| VZV |
325 |
124 |
62 |
24 |
34 |
42 |
| Measles |
71 |
43 |
39 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Mumps |
18 |
13 |
28 |
2 |
0 |
100 |
| Rubella |
23 |
1 |
96 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| LCMV |
7 |
0 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Adenoviruses |
115 |
24 |
79 |
1 |
0 |
100 |
| Total | 1,867 | 558 | 70 | 112 | 139 | 24 |
aHES, hospital episode statistics; Herpes, herpes simplex virus; VZV, varicella-zoster virus 1; LCMV, Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.
bJanuary 1, 1990–March 31, 1998.
cJanuary 1, 1993–March 31, 1998.
