A case of intractable epilepsy positive for the detection of measles virus genome in the cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral mononuclear cells using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

Brain and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 220-223

  Kawashima, Hisashi ^a   Miyajima, Tasuku ^a   Mori, Takayuki ^b   Yuan, Leipin ^a   Ogihara, Masaaki ^a   Kinoue, Keiko ^a   Takekuma, Kouji ^a   Hoshika, Akinori ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; H gene; Measles; Mental deterioration; Rasmussen syndrome; SSPE

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 0030152953     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0387-7604(95)00154-9     Document Type: Article

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