False-positive results obtained for immunoglobulin M antibody tests of cerebrospinal fluid for herpes simplex virus in a patient with varicella zoster virus encephalitis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 2667-2670

  Kinno, Ryuta ^a   Kurokawa, Shinji ^a   Uchiyama, Masanobu ^a   Sakae, Yoshiki ^a   Kasai, Hideyo ^a   Ogata, Hiroaki ^a   Kinugasa, Eriko ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY NORTHERN YOKOHAMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Encephalitis; False positive; Herpes simplex virus; Immunoglobulin M; Varicella zoster virus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VALACICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES ZOSTER ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SEIZURE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; SIMPLEXVIRUS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

AGED; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 84944453277     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.54.4891     Document Type: Article

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