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Table 1 Variables included in our study

From: Cluster analysis for identifying sub-groups and selecting potential discriminatory variables in human encephalitis

Symptom

Variables

Exposure

Variables

Diagnostic

Variables

Demograhic

Variables

• Lethargy

• Animal contact

• Measurements from Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)

• Gender

• Personality/behavioural change

• Tick bite

   - White blood cell count

• Age

• Seizures

• Mosquito bite

   - Protein

• Region

• Stiff neck

• Insect bite

   - Glucose

 

• Headache

• Immunization

• Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI)

 

• Irritability

• Recent infection

• Electroencephalography (EEG)

 

• Fever

• Travel abroad

• Computed Tomography (CT) scans

 

• Focal neurological findings

• Travel within UK

• other clinical variables

 

• Coma

• Raw fish

   - Length of stay in hospital

 

• Neurological signs

• Untreated water

   - Duration of illness

 

• Gastrointestinal

• Head trauma

  

• Respiratory

• Sick person contact

  

• Confusion

• Water exposure

  

• Photophobia

   

• Rash

   

• Urinary

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