Epstein-Barr virus encephalitis in a renal allograft recipient diagnosed by polymerase chain reaction on cerebrospinal fluid and succesfully treated with ganciclovir [13]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 197-198

  MacGinley, Robert ^a   Bartley, Paul B ^a   Sloots, Theo ^b   Johnson, David W ^a  

^a Princess Alexandra Hospital   (Austria)

^b Molecular Diagnostic Research Unit   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE; VALACICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VOMITING;

EID: 0035160038     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.1.197     Document Type: Letter

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4. Successful treatment with ganciclovir of presumed Epstein Barr meningoencephalitis following bone marrow transplant