Successful Treatment of Human Herpesvirus 6 Encephalomyelitis in Immunocompetent Patient

We report the case of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) encephalomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient, which was confirmed by viral amplification from cerebrospinal fluid. Cidofovir was used followed by ganciclovir because of an adverse effect to probenecid. The patient recovered. HHV-6 should be recogn...

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Autores principales: Denes, Eric, Magy, Laurent, Pradeau, Karine, Alain, Sophie, Weinbreck, Pierre, Ranger-Rogez, Sylvie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15200871
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1004.030587
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author Denes, Eric
Magy, Laurent
Pradeau, Karine
Alain, Sophie
Weinbreck, Pierre
Ranger-Rogez, Sylvie
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description We report the case of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) encephalomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient, which was confirmed by viral amplification from cerebrospinal fluid. Cidofovir was used followed by ganciclovir because of an adverse effect to probenecid. The patient recovered. HHV-6 should be recognized as one of the causes of encephalomyelitis.
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spelling pubmed-33230892012-04-17 Successful Treatment of Human Herpesvirus 6 Encephalomyelitis in Immunocompetent Patient Denes, Eric Magy, Laurent Pradeau, Karine Alain, Sophie Weinbreck, Pierre Ranger-Rogez, Sylvie Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We report the case of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) encephalomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient, which was confirmed by viral amplification from cerebrospinal fluid. Cidofovir was used followed by ganciclovir because of an adverse effect to probenecid. The patient recovered. HHV-6 should be recognized as one of the causes of encephalomyelitis. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3323089/ /pubmed/15200871 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1004.030587 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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title_short Successful Treatment of Human Herpesvirus 6 Encephalomyelitis in Immunocompetent Patient
title_sort successful treatment of human herpesvirus 6 encephalomyelitis in immunocompetent patient
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