Correction to: Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus meningitis after needlestick injury: a case report
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Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus–associated Meningitis, Southern Spain
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) was detected in 2 patients with acute meningitis in southern Spain within a 3-year period. Although the prevalence of LCMV infection was low (2 [1.3%] of 159 meningitis patients), it represents 2.9% of all pathogens detected. LCMV is a noteworthy agent of neurologic illness in immunocompetent persons.
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THE past twenty years have witnessed a great increase in our knowledge of the viruses capable of attacking the central nervous system of man. Encephalitis lethargic a , first recognized as a clinical and pathological entity in Vienna by von Economo (1917), was responsible for a series of epidemics between 1920 and 1926, but has now almost entirely disappeared. Its present diminished prevalence ...
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We describe a case of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) meningitis in a New York, NY, resident who had no apparent risk factors. Clues leading to the diagnosis included aseptic meningitis during winter and the finding of hypoglycorrachia and lymphocytosis in the cerebrospinal fluid. LCMV continues to be an underdiagnosed zoonotic disease.
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There has been an upsurge of interest in lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) as a human pathogen and specifically as an underdiagnosed congenital infection (1,2). LCMV is a member of the Arenaviridae family of viruses. Arenaviruses have a complex life cycle involving chronic infection and shedding of the virus in rodents and episodic infections in humans (3,4). Six of the arenaviruses (La...
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THE past twenty years have witnessed a great increase in our knowledge of the viruses capable of attacking the central nervous system of man. Encephalitis lethargic a , first recognized as a clinical and pathological entity in Vienna by von Economo (1917), was responsible for a series of epidemics between 1920 and 1926, but has now almost entirely disappeared. Its present diminished prevalence ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2047-2994
DOI: 10.1186/s13756-019-0600-9