SPECT scans for monitoring response to pleconaril therapy in chronic enteroviral meningoencephalitis

Journal of Infection

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 138-140

  Tormey, V J ^a   Buscombe, J R ^a   Johnson, M A ^a   Thomson, A P J ^b   Webster, A D B ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIGHTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; DIDANOSINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INDINAVIR; PLECONARIL; RITONAVIR; STAVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG RESPONSE; ENTEROVIRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEURORADIOLOGY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PICORNAVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 12244298866     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jinf.2002.1074     Document Type: Article

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