Case Presentation: A 65-year old man with a history of coronary artery disease, heart failure, and Crohn’s disease, who is a resident of northern Wisconsin presented with fevers, headache, and neck stiffness. Due to concern for meningitis, he was started empirically on Ceftriaxone, Vancomycin, Ampicillin, and Acyclovir. One day after initiation of therapy, he developed […]

Case Presentation: West Nile (WN) virus, a member of the Japanese encephalitis virus antigenic complex, is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the continental United States. Approximately 1 out of 250 patients develop neuroinvasive disease including encephalitis, meningitis, acute flaccid paralysis and opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (OMS). Sparse data exist regarding potential treatments for WN virus […]