Zúñiga CIR, Caro LJ

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) is a virus that causes an acute febrile illness, meningitis, or mosquito-borne meningoencephalitis. JCV is widely distributed in temperate North America. It is an Orthobunyavirus transmitted by mosquitoes. Human cases of Jamestown Canyon Virus disease are probably underrecognized and underdiagnosed. The clinical presentation of JCV has a respiratory prodrome with sore throat, rhinitis and cough, before the onset of neuroinvasive disease, which can be observed fever, chills, sweating, intense frontal headache, altered sensorium, seizures, neck stiffness, dizziness , paresthesias on the left side of the body.

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