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Volume 24, Number 5—May 2018
Dispatch

Human Usutu Virus Infection with Atypical Neurologic Presentation, Montpellier, France, 2016

Yannick SimoninComments to Author , Olivier Sillam, Marie J. Carles, Serafin Gutierrez, Patricia Gil, Orianne Constant, Marie F. Martin, Gilda Grard, Philippe Van de Perre, Sara Salinas, Isabelle Leparc-Goffart, and Vincent Foulongne
Author affiliations: Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France (Y. Simonin, O. Constant, M.F. Martin, P. Van de Perre, S. Salinas, V. Foulongne); Université de Montpellier Hôpital, Montpellier (O. Sillam); Nimes University Hospital, Nimes, France (M.J. Carles); Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Montpellier (S. Gutierrez, P. Gil); Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Marseille, France (G. Grard, I. Leparc-Goffart)

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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%).

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