High levels of adenosine deaminase in a patient with herpetic encephalitis and initial negative PCR results [1]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 147-148

  López Gómez, Manuel ^a,b   López Ruz, Miguel A ^a   Jiménez Alonso, Juan ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; FEVER; HEADACHE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; LETTER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VOMITING;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ADULT; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0037559329     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375237     Document Type: Letter

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