The incidence of acute encephalitis syndrome in Western industrialised and tropical countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As part of efforts to control Japanese encephalitis (JE), the World Health Organization is producing a set of standards for JE surveillance, which require the identification of patients with acute encephalitis syndrome (AES). This review aims to provide information to determine what minimum annual incidence of AES should be reported to show that the surveillance programme is active.

Methods

A total of 12,436 articles were retrieved from 3 databases; these were screened by title search and duplicates removed to give 1,083 papers which were screened by abstract (or full paper if no abstract available) to give 87 papers. These 87 were reviewed and 25 papers identified which met the inclusion criteria.

Results

Case definitions and diagnostic criteria, aetiologi

SUBMITTER: Jmor F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2583971 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature