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Table 1 Neurological disorders associated with arboviral infections

From: Neurocognitive impacts of arbovirus infections

Virus

Neurological disorders

Long-term sequelae in children and in adults

References

WNV

Encephalitis, meningitis, meningoencephalitis, and acute flaccid paralysis

Neurological sequelae, confusion, seizure, memory impairment, speech disability, depression, and ocular complications

[34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42]

DENV

Encephalopathy, meningitis, stroke, cerebellar syndrome, myelitis, and guillain-barré syndrome

Neurological sequelae, mood-, personality-, behavior- disorders, and ocular complications

[29, 43,44,45]

ZIKV

Meningoencephalitis, guillain-barré syndrome, microcephaly, and congenital Zika syndrome

Mental retardation, seizure, epileptic behavior, communication-, social cognition-, and mobility- abnormalities, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, memory and learning deficits, and ocular pathology

[46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62]

JEV

Encephalitis, aseptic meningitis and acute flaccid paralysis

Motor and language deficit, learning difficulties, behavioral problems, mental retardation, neurological-, neuropsychiatric-, and cognitive sequelae

[63,64,65,66,67]

CHIKV

Encephalitis, myelopathy, neuropathy, myeloneuropathy, myopathy, and paralysis

Arthralgia, arthritis, neurological sequelae, cognitive disturbance, and ocular complications

[68,69,70,71,72,73]

TBEV

Encephalitis, meningitis, meningoencephalitis, and myelitis

Cognitive sequelae, behavior-, memory-, and language- dysfunctions

[74,75,76,77]

EEEV, WEEV

Encephalitis

Seizures, cognitive defects, psychiatric illness, motor dysfunction, behavioral impairments, and intellectual impairment

[78, 79]