Congenital infection with human herpesvirus 6 variant B associated with neonatal seizures and poor neurological outcome

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 628-632

  Lanari, Marcello ^a,b   Papa, Irene ^a   Venturi, Valentina ^a   Lazzarotto, Tiziana ^a   Faldella, Giacomo ^a   Gabrielli, Liliana ^a   Guerra, Brunella ^a   Landini, Maria Paola ^a   Salvioli, Gian Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Istituto Clinico di Pediatria Preventiva e Neonatologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral atrophy; Human herpesvirus 6; Neonatal neurological disease; Polymerase chain reaction; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURE; STRABISMUS; SYMPTOM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEIZURES;

HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6;

EID: 0038044746     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.10441     Document Type: Article

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