Varicella-zoster virus meningoencephalitis in an immunocompetent patient without a rash

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 631-633

  Klein, Natalie C ^a,b   McDermott, Brian ^a,b   Cunha, Burke A ^a,b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; LACTIC ACID; VALACICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ASTHMA; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISORIENTATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MONOCYTE; NAUSEA; NEUTROPHIL; NIGHT SWEAT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOPHOBIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; URINALYSIS; URINE CULTURE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; ENCEPHALITIS, VARICELLA ZOSTER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; VIROLOGY;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS, VARICELLA ZOSTER; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN;

EID: 77954768216     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365540903510716     Document Type: Article

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