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Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional IndividualsEncephalitis, Postinfectious Measles

Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and... cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), and especially in increased levels of mononuclear cells and protein (Johnson, 1998), but these are not consistent findings. Therefore, follow-up Postinfectious measles encephalitis is an autoimmune is needed even in cases in which there is no evidence of the response characterized by inflammation and demyelina- disease in the blood or urine and the lumbar puncture is tion that is triggered by the measles virus. The measles clean. Other methods to follow up on the disease include virus is transmitted through respiratory droplets and is use of electroencephalograms (EEGs) and magnetic reso- thought to have impacted civilizations as early as 4000 B.C. nance imaging (MRI). In cases of postinfectious measles A young Danish physician, Peter L. Panum, however, is encephalitis, the EEG commonly displays diffuse, sym- credited with much of the information that is now known metric slowing, and the MRI often shows demyelination in about measles, including the highly contagious nature the cerebellum and brain stem. of the disease. Panum was sent to the Faroe Islands The prognosis for individuals who contract postinfec- in the mid-1800s to assist with a large-scale measles tious measles encephalitis is often poor: Approximately outbreak and discovered that measles have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional IndividualsEncephalitis, Postinfectious Measles

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), and especially in increased levels of mononuclear cells and protein (Johnson, 1998), but these are not consistent findings. Therefore, follow-up Postinfectious measles encephalitis is an autoimmune is needed even in cases in which there is no evidence of the response characterized by inflammation and demyelina- disease in the blood or urine and the lumbar puncture is tion that is triggered by the measles virus. The measles clean. Other methods to follow up on the disease include virus is transmitted through respiratory droplets and is use of electroencephalograms (EEGs) and magnetic reso- thought to have impacted civilizations as early as 4000 B.C. nance imaging (MRI). In cases of postinfectious measles A young Danish physician, Peter L. Panum, however, is encephalitis, the EEG commonly displays diffuse, sym- credited with much of the information that is now known metric slowing, and the MRI often shows demyelination in about measles, including the highly contagious nature the cerebellum and brain stem. of the disease. Panum was sent to the Faroe Islands The prognosis for individuals who contract postinfec- in the mid-1800s to assist with a large-scale measles tious measles encephalitis is often poor: Approximately outbreak and discovered that measles have

Published: Aug 13, 2013

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