Intracerebral varicella-zoster virus reactivation in congenital varicella syndrome

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 837-840

  Sauerbrei, Andreas ^a   Pawlak, J ^b   Luger, C ^c   Wutzler, P ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Regional Hospital   (Austria)

^c ELISABETHINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; PHENOBARBITAL; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHICKENPOX; CLONIC SEIZURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TOXICITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; GESTATION PERIOD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN DEFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHICKENPOX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 0344468227     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203001555     Document Type: Article

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