Spinal Cord Neuropathology in Human West NileVirus Infection

2004117 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Jonathan D. Fratkin · Methodist Rehabilitation Center

A. Arturo Leis · Mississippi State Department of Health

Dobrivoje S. Stokić · Mississippi State Department of Health

Sally Slavinski · Mississippi State Department of Health

Roger W. Geiss · Methodist Rehabilitation Center

Abstract

West Nile virus caused poliomyelitis. Injury to spinal and sympathetic ganglia mirrored the damage to the spinal gray matter. The disappearance of sympathetic neurons could lead to the autonomic instability observed in some WNV patients, including labile vital signs, hypotension, and potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmias.

Topics & Keywords

Mosquito-borne diseases and control Malaria Research and Control Vector-borne infectious diseases

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Volume 128, Issue 5, pp. 533-537

DOI: 10.5858/2004-128-533-scnihw

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