Herpes simplex virus encephalitis despite normal cell count in the cerebrospinal fluid

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1304-1308

  Jakob, Nurith J ^a   Lenhard, Thorsten ^a   Schnitzler, Paul ^a   Rohde, Stefan ^a   Ringleb, Peter A ^a   Steiner, Thorsten ^a   Wildemann, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

acyclovir; cerebrospinal fluid; consciousness disturbance; herpes simplex virus; herpes simplex virus encephalitis; mesial temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID; VIRUS DNA;

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MAXILLA SINUS CARCINOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL CELL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ACYCLOVIR; AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84858785951     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182374a34     Document Type: Article

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