Severe meningoencephalitis caused by human herpesvirus 6 type B in an immunocompetent woman treated with ganciclovir

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 887-889

  Birnbaum, Tobias ^a,b   Padovan, Claudio S ^a   Sporer, Bernd ^a   Rupprecht, Tobias A ^a   Ausserer, Harald ^b   Jaeger, Gundula ^a   Pfister, Hans W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; GANCICLOVIR; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 14944343580     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427943     Document Type: Article

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