Viral encephalitis: Causes, differential diagnosis, and management

Neurology in Practice

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Kennedy, P G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; GANCICLOVIR; STEROID; VALACICLOVIR;

ADENOVIRUS; ANAMNESIS; ARBOVIRUS; ARENAVIRUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BUNYAVIRUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; MEASLES VIRUS; MUMPS VIRUS; MYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; REOVIRUS; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; RUBELLA VIRUS; SEIZURE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NIPAH VIRUS; VACCINATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AIDS DEMENTIA COMPLEX; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; VIRUSES;

EID: 1542511887     PISSN: 14737086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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