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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 31(6), 1982, pp. 1238-1244
Copyright © 1982 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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A Case of Encephalitis in a Human Associated with a Serologic Rise to Jamestown Canyon Virus*

Paul R. Grimstad, Charles L. Shabino, Charles H. Calisher AND Ronald J. Waldman{dagger}
Laboratory for Arbovirus Research and Surveillance, Department of Biology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49006, Vector-Borne Viral Disease Division, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522, and Michigan Department of Public Health, Lansing, Michigan

Abstract. An 8-year-old girl living in rural southwestern Michigan experienced sudden onset of symptoms beginning with headache, dizziness and fever which rapidly progessed to central nervous system involvement with seizures and coma. Following 27 days of hospitalization her recovery was uneventful, with no apparent sequelae 15 months after discharge. Serologic studies of paired sera showed a rise in antibody to Jamestown Canyon virus, a member of the California serogroup (family Bunyaviridae). Specific IgM anti-Jamestown Canyon virus antibody was detected in sera drawn 9 days after onset. A concomitant rise in complement fixation antibody to herpesvirus was also noted. We believe this is the first reported case of encephalitis associated with Jamestown Canyon virus infection. Reasons are presented for the current inability to routinely detect infection and clinical illness caused by this virus.

Accepted for publication March 31, 1982.


* This work was supported in part by a service contract from the Indiana State Board of Health, a research contract from Michigan State University, and NIH grant AI-02753.

Address reprint requests to P. R. Grimstad, Department of Biology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556.


{dagger} Present address: Centers for Disease Control, International Health Program Office, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.




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