Life-threatening human herpes virus-6 infection in early childhood: Presenting symptom of a primary immunodeficiency?

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Hennus, Marije P ^a   Van Montfrans, Joris M ^a   Van Vught, Adrianus J ^a   Tesselaar, Kiki ^a   Boelens, Jaap Jan ^a   Jansen, Nicolaas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Case series; Human herpes virus type 6; Immunodeficiency; Mechanical ventilation; Pediatric intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIGEN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MITOGENIC AGENT; PREDNISONE; THIOPENTAL; VALGANCICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

ADD ON THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONVULSION; DEHYDRATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEART; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; PLASMA; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SPINAL CORD LESION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REACTIVATION; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 68849101944     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e31819bb956     Document Type: Article

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