Encephalitis accounted for hospitalizations in 5.2/100, 000 population between 1994 and 2008 in Canada [1]. While 50% of these cases had unknown etiologies at the time [1], it has recently become clear that a large number of encephalidities of unknown etiology may be inflammatory. For example, one population-based study found that 21% of cases of encephalitis were identified as being due to immune-mediated processes [2]. In children, the frequency of immune-mediated encephalitis has been estimated to be approximately 34% in a retrospective single-center cohort study, surpassing that of infectious etiologies [3].
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Longoni, G., & Yeh, E. A. (2020). Immune-mediated encephalidities. In Clinical Child Neurology (pp. 629–649). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43153-6_19
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