Zika virus causing encephalomyelitis associated with immunoactivation

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Galliez, Rafael Mello ^a,b   Spitz, Mariana ^c,d   Rafful, Patricia Piazza ^b,e   Cagy, Marcelo ^c,d   Escosteguy, Claudia ^d   Germano, Caroline Spósito Brito ^c,d   Sasse, Elisa ^c,d   Gonçalves, Alessandro Luis ^b   Silveira, Paola Paz ^b   Pezzuto, Paula ^b   Ornelas, Alice Maria de Magalhães ^b   Tanuri, Amilcar ^b   Aguiar, Renato Santana ^b   Moll, Fernanda Tovar ^b,e  

^a Instituto Estadual de Infectologia Sao Sebastiao   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d Division of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology Department of Surgery   (Brazil)

^e D OR INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IDOR   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Encephalomyelitis; Neurological manifestations; Proinflammatory cytokines; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; GLUCOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN; SULBACTAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALAISE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZIKA VIRUS;

EID: 84996536771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw203     Document Type: Article

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