Herpes simplex virus type 1 and respiratory disease in critically-ill patients: Real pathogen or innocent bystander?

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1050-1059

  Simoons Smit, A M ^a   Kraan, E M ^a   Beishuizen, A ^a   Strack van Schijndel, R J ^a   Vandenbroucke Grauls, C M ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Critically ill patients; Diagnosis; Herpessimplex virus; Pathogenesis; Respiratory tract infection; Review

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; PLACEBO;

BRONCHOSCOPY; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SAFETY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG BIOPSY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1;

EID: 33749055681     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01475.x     Document Type: Review

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