Clinical signs as a guide for performing HSV-PCR in correct diagnosis of herpes simplex virus encephalitis

Neurology India

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 341-344

  Behzad Behbahani, A ^a   Abbas, B B ^c   Abdolvahab, A ^a   Gholamali, Y P ^b   Roshanak, B ^b   Mahmood, R ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Herpes simplex encephalitis; Virus nucleic acid

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; FISHER EXACT TEST; GUSTATORY HALLUCINATION; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0346252589     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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