Aseptic Meningoencephalitis in Slovenia

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2020-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The main objective of this study is:

• to establish etiology of acute aseptic meningitis/meningoencephalitis in Slovenia

• to assess the clinical course and outcome of tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme neuroborreliosis

• to characterize the inflammatory proteins, gene polymorphisms, and transcriptome profiles in patients with tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme neuroborreliosis

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Medical Centre Ljubljana
• Collaborators: Harvard University; Slovenian Research Agency; University of Ljubljana School of Medicine, Slovenia
• Treatments: Acyclovir; Ceftriaxone; Doxycycline; Thiethylperazine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• clinical picture compatible with aseptic meningitis/meningoencephalitis

• age 18 years or older

• clear cerebrospinal fluid on macroscopic examination

• cerebrospinal pleocytosis (> 5 x 106 white blood cells per liter)

Exclusion Criteria:

• younger than 18 years

• pregnant women