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Choriomeningitis - what is it?
Choriomeningitis is an infectious disease of the soft membranes of the brain caused by a neurotropic virus (arenovirus). The exact name of the disease is lymphocytic choriomeningitis.
The disease is acute. The signs of choriomenningitis resemble at the initial stages of development an acute respiratory infection with catarrhal symptoms, general weakness and fever. Meningeal symptoms: unbearable headache, vomiting, stiff neck, paresis of the abducens and trigeminal nerves, oculomotor muscles, deafness and high temperature (up to 40 degrees) begin to appear a little later, which can mislead both the patient and the doctor about the diagnosis diseases. The prodromal period lasts from one to two weeks and also resembles the prodromal period of respiratory airway disease.
The source of infection in choriomeningitis is ordinary domestic gray mice, hamsters, rats, guinea pigs, the feces of which contain a virus, and which enters the airborne droplets with dust into the human respiratory tract or into the digestive tract with food damaged by rodents or stored in places where the rodents live.
To clarify the diagnosis, a puncture of the spinal cord is performed and tests of the cerebrospinal fluid (cerebrospinal fluid) are used, where high blood pressure is observed. Lymphocytosis is observed in the blood.
Choriomeningitis treatment is etiotropic and symptomatic. The virus is influenced by antiviral drugs - immunomodulators and immunostimulants. Reduce intracranial pressure, carry out dehydration therapy. Minor meningeal symptoms may persist for some time after the end of the acute period of the disease. The prognosis of the outcome of the disease is favorable.
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