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DOID:10993 - postinfectious encephalitis


Disease Ontology Definition:An encephalitis that is characterized by the immune system mistakenly attacking healthy cells in the brain instead of attacking only the cells causing the infection, often occurring two to three weeks after the initial infection.

Synonyms: Post-infectious encephalitis (disorder), Post-infectious encephalitis NOS (disorder), Postinfective encephalitis, secondary encephalitis,

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Other Model Organisms: AGR, MGI, ZFIN, FlyBase, WormBase, RGD

Ontology Viewers: Disease Ontology, EMBL-EBI, OLSVis tree view, Ontobee
Parent(s): autoimmune disease of central nervous system (is_a), encephalitis (is_a)