By a laboratory test.
A laboratory test is required to confirm the infection and to rule out the other causes of encephalitis.
Patients with evidence of neurologic infection such as meningitis, acute flaccid paralysis, or encephalitis and who have recently travelled to or lived in an endemic country should be considered a suspected case.
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