A Protracted Course of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encephalitis With Persistent Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction Positivity Post Treatment

Herpes simplex virus type 1 encephalitis presenting as an undulating course for more than two weeks prior to treatment. Despite 21 days of intravenous acyclovir, the virus remained detectable in the cerebrospinal fluid. The patient was treated with an additional 21 days of acyclovir with further imp...

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Autores principales: Abbott, Andrew, Lusby, Heather, Islam, Shehla P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8525692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34692318
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18107
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description Herpes simplex virus type 1 encephalitis presenting as an undulating course for more than two weeks prior to treatment. Despite 21 days of intravenous acyclovir, the virus remained detectable in the cerebrospinal fluid. The patient was treated with an additional 21 days of acyclovir with further improvement in mental status.
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spelling pubmed-85256922021-10-22 A Protracted Course of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encephalitis With Persistent Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction Positivity Post Treatment Abbott, Andrew Lusby, Heather Islam, Shehla P Cureus Neurology Herpes simplex virus type 1 encephalitis presenting as an undulating course for more than two weeks prior to treatment. Despite 21 days of intravenous acyclovir, the virus remained detectable in the cerebrospinal fluid. The patient was treated with an additional 21 days of acyclovir with further improvement in mental status. Cureus 2021-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8525692/ /pubmed/34692318 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18107 Text en Copyright © 2021, Abbott et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Abbott, Andrew
Lusby, Heather
Islam, Shehla P
A Protracted Course of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encephalitis With Persistent Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction Positivity Post Treatment
title A Protracted Course of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encephalitis With Persistent Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction Positivity Post Treatment
title_full A Protracted Course of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encephalitis With Persistent Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction Positivity Post Treatment
title_fullStr A Protracted Course of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encephalitis With Persistent Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction Positivity Post Treatment
title_full_unstemmed A Protracted Course of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encephalitis With Persistent Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction Positivity Post Treatment
title_short A Protracted Course of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encephalitis With Persistent Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction Positivity Post Treatment
title_sort protracted course of herpes simplex virus type 1 encephalitis with persistent cerebrospinal fluid polymerase chain reaction positivity post treatment
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8525692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34692318
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18107
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