Volume 10, Number 12—December 2004
Dispatch
First Human Cases of Tickborne Encephalitis, Norway
Tone Skarpaas*
, Unn Ljøstad*, and Anders Sundøy*
, Unn Ljøstad*, and Anders Sundøy*
Table 2
Laboratory findings in serum and spinal fluid specimens from patients with tickborne encephalitis, Norway, 1997–2003a
| Serum |
Spinal fluid |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient no. | Temperature °C | CRP mg/L | Pleocytosis 109/L | Pleocytosis 106/L | Protein mg/L |
| 1 | 38.4 | 10 | ND | ND | ND |
| 2 | 39.6 | 105 | 8,3 | 500 | 850 |
| 3 | – | – | – | 47 | 790 |
| 4 | 39.6 | 32 | 11,3 | 39 | 622 |
| 5 | 40 | 15 | 8,6 | 24 | 609 |
| 6 | 39.5 | 18 | 13 | 130 | 1,180 |
| 7 | 38 | 46 | 15,4 | 115 | 1,337 |
| 8 | 38.3 | 15 | 12,1 | 22 | 649 |
aND, not done. CRP, C-reactive protein TBE was diagnosed retrospectively. The patient was not hospitalized; –, not published.
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