An adult case of relapsing human herpesvirus-6 encephalitis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 1617-1620

  Sawada, Jun ^a   Nakatani Enomoto, Setsu ^a   Aizawa, Hitoshi ^a   Katayama, Takayuki ^a   Ito, Takashi ^a   Aburakawa, Yoko ^a   Kikuchi, Kenjiro ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV 6); Immunocompetent; Relapse

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISOLONE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECURRENT DISEASE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

AGED; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 34948885728     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0239     Document Type: Article

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