A case of paraplegia due to asymptomatic varicella-zoster virus infection in AIDS patient unexpectedly diagnosed by CSF metagenomic next-generation sequencing

BACKGROUND: Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection may induce central nervous system complications in HIV/AIDS patients. However, it is rare to have paraplegia caused by VZV infection but no herpes zoster clinically. Asymptomatic VZV infection in HIV/AIDS patient increased the difficulty of diagnosi...

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Autores principales: Xie, Zhiman, Lai, Jingzhen, Ning, Chuanyi, Ruan, Guangjing, Liang, Hao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8447628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34530756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06611-9

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