Advances in pediatric neurovirology

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 147-154

  Crawford, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CNS; Pediatric neurovirology

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS VACCINE; DENDRITIC CELL VACCINE; FOSCARNET; GADOLINIUM; GANCICLOVIR; GLYCOPROTEIN B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; OSELTAMIVIR; STEROID;

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; BIOPSY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INJURY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPENDYMOMA; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES ZOSTER ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; OPTIC NEURITIS; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMA VIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TUMOR; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VIRAL DISEASES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDIATRICS;

EID: 77953538599     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-010-0088-4     Document Type: Review

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