Kazan medical journalKazan medical journal0368-48142587-9359Eco-Vector7831910.17816/kazmj78319MiscellaneousVaccine encephalitis. Levaditi and Nicolau (C. ren. d. 1. Soc. de Biol., 1926, no. 2)151019262210118611861808202118082021Copyright © 1926, Board E.1926<p>Recently, a number of cases of fatal encephalitis in children after smallpox vaccination have been described in the foreign press. According to Levaditi and Nicolau, in these cases the smallpox virus is not, as some think, the direct causative agent of encephalitis, and the vaccination is only a factor favoring the development of the disease in carriers of the encephalitic virus, as well as in persons in the latent period of infection.</p>Kazan Medical archiveКазанский медицинский архив