Measles encephalitis: Direct viral invasion or autoimmune-mediated inflammation?

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 841-842

  Hosoya, Mitsuaki ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Encephalopathy; Measles; MRI

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; OLIGOCLONAL BAND; PROTEIN;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DAMAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DEMYELINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INFECTION COMPLICATION; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MEASLES; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; TISSUE INJURY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 33747665556     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.0161     Document Type: Editorial

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