Ganciclovir-resistant Human herpesvirus-6 encephalitis in a liver transplant patient: A case report

Journal of NeuroVirology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-195

  Baldwin, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; GLUCOSE; HARKOSERIDE; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS DNA;

ADDUCTION; AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CORNEA REFLEX; COUGHING; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; EYE MOVEMENT; FLEXOR REFLEX; GAZE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEPATITIS C; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6 ENCEPHALITIS; INTUBATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; SEDATION; SEIZURE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TENDON REFLEX; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIRUS LOAD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DNA, VIRAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6;

EID: 79960002437     PISSN: 13550284     EISSN: 15382443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13365-011-0019-4     Document Type: Article

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