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Can Med Assoc J. 1975 Apr 19; 112(8): 972–975.
PMCID: PMC1956061
PMID: 236821

Encephalitis after administration of live measles vaccine.

F. Jagdis, C. Langston, and M. Gurwith
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Abstract

In a previously well child with no evidence of pre-existing immunologic defect a fatal encephalitis developed 10 days after administration of measles vaccine. There was pathologic evidence of an early viral encephalitis characterized by perivascular mononulcear infiltrates. Although the virus was not recovered, the diagnosis of a measles virus infection and encephalitis is supported by the postmortem findings of Warthin-Finkeldey cells in lymphoid tissues, an intranuclear inclusion in the brain and histologic changes of encephalitis.

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