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meningoencephalitis

[mə¦niŋ·gō·in‚sef·ə′līd·əs]

(medicine)

Inflammation of the brain and its meninges.

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La Crosse encephalitis, also known as California encephalitis, is an acute mosquito-borne viral infection causing encephalitis or encephalomeningitis. The first viruses of the California serogroup were isolated in a person in Kern County, in the Central Valley of California in 1943 (caused by a virus called California virus).

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(33) Complications of chickenpox include secondary bacterial skin infection (both impetigo and invasive group A streptococcal disease) (CENTERFOLD, FIGURE 11), pneumonia, Reye's syndrome (now rare), encephalomeningitis, glomerulonephritis, thrombocytopenia, purpura fulminans, cerebellar ataxia, arthritis, and hepatitis.

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Complications include secondary bacterial skin infection (both impetigo and invasive group A streptococcal disease), pneumonia, Reye syndrome (now rare), encephalomeningitis, glomerulonephritis, thrombocytopenia, purpura fulminans, cerebellar ataxia, arthritis, and hepatitis.