Testicular pain associated with clear fluid meningitis: How many cases of Toscana virus are we missing?

•Testicular pain is uncommonly associated with TOSV meningitis.•Around 50% of aseptic meningitis cases are considered as without etiologies.•A whole body examination is the key element in medical practice. Toscana virus (TOSV) is a common cause of meningitis in Mediterranean area. However, rare publ...

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Veröffentlicht in:International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2020-04, Vol.93, p.198-200
Hauptverfasser: Mascitti, Hélène, Calin, Ruxandra, Dinh, Aurélien, Makhloufi, Sabrina, Davido, Benjamin
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Zusammenfassung:•Testicular pain is uncommonly associated with TOSV meningitis.•Around 50% of aseptic meningitis cases are considered as without etiologies.•A whole body examination is the key element in medical practice. Toscana virus (TOSV) is a common cause of meningitis in Mediterranean area. However, rare publications reported extra-meningeal signs. We report the third case of testicular pain associated with TOSV meningitis despite the fact that there is no evidence of semen involvement in other well-known arboviruses, except in Zika virus.
ISSN:1201-9712
1878-3511
DOI:10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.008