1. Symptomatic herpes occurred in 190 (46.2 per cent) of 411 patients treated with fever induced by physical methods. 2. Herpes recurred in only 7, or 5.3 per cent, of 131 patients given subsequent fever treatments, suggesting that some immunity develops with the first attack. 3. An acute encephalitis-like syndrome of short duration and without sequelae developed in a group of patients with sev...

Encephalitis by Herpes Simplex virus type-2 in adults is rare and has been described as part of a disseminated infection in settings of immunosuppression, pregnancy being one of them. The virus was isolated from CSF of a young female, who during puerperium, presented with hepatitis, encephalitis and subsequently developed persistent vegetative state. Case history of another woman at term pregna...

3) Which method was used to investigate rabies immunoglobulin in the cerebrospinal fluid? What were the patient’s other cerebrospinal fluid findings? For instance, was herpes simplex virus encephalitis investigated? This would be important to know because this is another possible explanation of the condition. 4) It is well known that rabies is almost always fatal, but this patient survived. Whi...

Cardinal symptoms of encephalitis include fever, headache, neck stiffness, photophobia, confusion and seizures. Clinical examination will reveal altered mental status ranging from somnolence to lethargy and coma. Delirium, cranial nerve palsies, ataxia, rash and sign of increased intracranial pressure may be seen. It is not always possible to ascertain the specific cause of encephalitis from cl...

Various neurologic manifestations of herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis have been reported on the literatures. Chorea, ballism, choreoathetosis and myoclonus were reported as movement disorders which might be related with brain lesion by HSV encephalitis, but negative myoclonus (NM) has never been reported before. NM can be characterized as a shock-like involuntary jerky movement caused by...

Objective – to study the dynamics of level neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and S-100 protein in blood serum cerebrospinal fluid children with various features viral encephalitis course outcome define their role diagnostics prognosis. Material methods. 48 aged from 1 month 15 years were examined. Analysis NSE was performed by method hardphase immune-enzyme analysis. Results. A reliable increase id...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Pediatric encephalitis has a wide range of etiologies, clinical presentations, and outcomes. This study seeks to classify and characterize infectious, immune-mediated/autoantibody-associated and unknown forms of encephalitis, including relative frequencies, clinical and radiologic phenotypes, and long-term outcome. METHODS By using consensus definitions and a retrosp...

Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), also known as Human herpesvirus 1, is a highly prevalent human neurotropic pathogen that causes a variety of diseases, including lethal encephalitis. Here, we report the genome sequence of the HSV-1 strain SC16.

It is now generally accepted that autism is a behavioral syndrome with an underlying organic pathology. It can be associated with a variety of disorders affecting the central nervous system, such as encephalitis. DeLong, Bean, and Brown (1981) described three children, ages between 5 and 11 years, who developed acute encephalitic illness accompanied by autistic features that resolved after clin...