Volume 24, Number 5—May 2018
Dispatch
Human Usutu Virus Infection with Atypical Neurologic Presentation, Montpellier, France, 2016
Table
Clinical conditions or symptoms associated with microbial investigations of cerebrospinal fluid samples for infections with arboviruses, France*
Condition | No. (%) positive samples |
---|---|
Meningitis/encephalitis | 277 (41.6) |
Neurologic disorders† | 233 (34.9) |
Febrile syndrome | 108 (16.2) |
Other | 48 (7.0) |
Total | 666 (100.0) |
*Samples collected at the Université de Montpellier Hôpital (Montpellier, France) and Nîmes University Hospital (Nimes, France) during May–November 2016.
†Including (if >2%) convulsion/epileptic seizure (25%); paralysis/paresthesia/polyradiculoneuritis/motor loss/palsy (31%); myelitis (2%); vascularitis (3%); encephalopathy (6%); Guillain-Barré syndrome (4%), headache (15%); and confusion (10%).