Spontaneous Infection or Vaccination as Cause of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- case report
- Published by S. Karger AG in Neuroepidemiology
- Vol. 4 (3) , 138-145
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000110225
Abstract
This report describes an approach to determine which of 2 possible etiologies could be responsible for a disease, in this instance acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). Information about latency periods was obtained from eighteen reference sources in the literature. Analysis of these data indicate that it would be 9–18 times more likely for ADEM to develop 5 days after a wild virus infection (measles, for example) than 28 days after a vaccination.Keywords
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