ENCEPHALITIS

Diagnosis, Diagnostics, Immunodiagnosis & Immunodiagnostics:  

7167.   Aboul-Enein F, Rauschka H, Kornek B, Stadelmann C, Stefferl A, Bruck W, Lucchinetti C, Schmidbauer M, Jellinger K, Lassmann H.   Preferential loss of myelin-associated glycoprotein reflects hypoxia-like white matter damage in stroke and inflammatory brain diseases. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2003 Jan;62(1):25-33.

7168.   Azad R, Gupta RK, Kumar S, Pandey CM, Prasad KN, Husain N, Husain M.  Is neurocysticercosis a risk factor in coexistent intracranial disease? An MRI based study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2003 Mar;74(3):359-61.

7169.   Behzad-Behbahani A, Klapper PE, Vallely PJ, Cleator GM. BK virus DNA in CSF of immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. Arch Dis Child  2003 Feb;88(2):174-5

7170.   Bernal F, Shams'ili S, Rojas I, Sanchez-Valle R, Saiz A, Dalmau J, Honnorat J, Sillevis Smitt P, Graus F.   Anti-Tr antibodies as markers of paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration and Hodgkin's disease. Neurology. 2003 Jan 28;60(2):230-4.

7171.   Dong M, Zhang PF, Grieder F, Lee J, Krishnamurthy G, VanCott T, Broder C, Polonis VR, Yu XF, Shao Y, Faix D, Valente P, Quinnan GV Jr.   Induction of primary virus-cross-reactive human immunodeficiency virus type 1-neutralizing antibodies in small animals by using an alphavirus-derived in vivo expression system. J Virol. 2003 Mar;77(5):3119-30.

7172.   Hamprecht K, Eckle T, Prix L, Faul C, Einsele H, Jahn G. Ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus disease after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: pitfalls of phenotypic diagnosis by in vitro selection of an UL97 mutant strain. J Infect Dis. 2003 Jan 1;187(1):139-43.

7173.   Hertzig T, Weber M, Greiffenberg L, Holthausen BS, Goebel W, Kim KS, Kuhn M.  Antibodies present in normal human serum inhibit invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells by Listeria monocytogenes. Infect Immun. 2003 Jan;71(1):95-100.

7174.   Hurley RA, Ernst T, Khalili K, Del Valle L, Simone IL, Taber KH.  Identification of HIV-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2003 Winter;15(1):1-6.

7175.   Kossmann T, Morganti-Kossmann MC, Orenstein JM, Britt WJ, Wahl SM, Smith PD.  Cytomegalovirus production by infected astrocytes correlates with transforming  growth factor-beta release. J Infect Dis. 2003 Feb 15;187(4):534-41.

7176.   Lin TY, Hsia SH, Huang YC, Wu CT, Chang LY.   Proinflammatory cytokine reactions in enterovirus 71 infections of the central nervous system. Clin Infect Dis. 2003 Feb 1;36(3):269-74.

7177.   Mishra OP, Batra P, Ali Z, Anupurba S, Das BK.  Cerebrospinal fluid lysozyme level for the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis in children. J Trop Pediatr. 2003 Feb;49(1):13-6.

7178.   Potula R, Badrinath S, Srinivasan S.  Japanese encephalitis in and around Pondicherry, South India: a clinical appraisal and prognostic indicators for the outcome. J Trop Pediatr. 2003 Feb;49(1):48-53.

7179.   Schauble B, Castillo PR, Boeve BF, Westmoreland BF.  EEG findings in steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis. Clin Neurophysiol. 2003 Jan;114(1):32-7.

7180.   Sibbald B.  Canada will check donor blood for West Nile virus if test available. CMAJ. 2003 Jan 21;168(2):207.

7181.   Singhal AB, Newstein MC, Budzik R, Cha JH, Rordorf G, Buonanno FS, Panzara MA.  Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities in Bartonella encephalopathy. J Neuroimaging. 2003 Jan;13(1):79-82.

7182.   Thomas P, Zifkin B, Ghetau G, Delalande O.  Persistence of ictal activity after functional hemispherectomy in Rasmussen syndrome. Neurology. 2003 Jan 14;60(1):140-2.

7183.   Turchan J, Pocernich CB, Gairola C, Chauhan A, Schifitto G, Butterfield DA, Buch S, Narayan O, Sinai A, Geiger J, Berger JR, Elford H, Nath A.    Oxidative stress in HIV demented patients and protection ex vivo with novel antioxidants. Neurology. 2003 Jan 28;60(2):307-14.

7184.   Warnatz K, Peter HH, Schumacher M, Wiese L, Prasse A, Petschner F, Vaith P, Volk B, Weiner SM.   Infectious CNS disease as a differential diagnosis in systemic rheumatic diseases: three case reports and a review of the literature. Ann Rheum Dis. 2003 Jan;62(1):50-7.

Pathogenesis:

7185.   Booton GC, Carmichael JR, Visvesvara GS, Byers TJ, Fuerst PA.  Genotyping of Balamuthia mandrillaris based on nuclear 18S and mitochondrial 16S rRNA genes.Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2003 Jan;68(1):65-9.

7186.   Cucchiara BL, Forman MS, McGarvey ML, Kasner SE, King D.  Fatal subacute cytomegalovirus encephalitis associated with hypogammaglobulinemia and thymoma. Mayo Clin Proc. 2003 Feb;78(2):223-7.

7187.   Gritsun TS, Frolova TV, Zhankov AI, Armesto M, Turner SL, Frolova MP, Pogodina VV, Lashkevich VA, Gould EA.  Characterization of a siberian virus isolated from a patient with progressive chronic tick-borne encephalitis. J Virol. 2003 Jan;77(1):25-36.

7188.   Kathula SK, Kamana M, Mall S.  Rectal carcinoma with dementia. Psychosomatics. 2003 Jan-Feb;44(1):82-3.

7189.   Kumar S.  Inadequate research facilities fail to tackle mystery disease. BMJ. 2003 Jan 4;326(7379):12.

7190.   Pola R, Flex A, Gaetani E, Santoliquido A, Serricchio M, Pola P, Bernabei R.   Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 K469E gene polymorphism and Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging. 2003 Mar-Apr;24(2):385-7.

7191.   Ryan J, Dave K, Emmerich E, Fernandez B, Turell M, Johnson J, Gottfried K, Burkhalter K, Kerst A, Hunt A, Wirtz R, Nasci R.   Wicking assays for the rapid detection of West Nile and St. Louis encephalitis viral antigens in mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol. 2003 Jan;40(1):95-9.

7192.   Teunissen CE, van Boxtel MP, Bosma H, Bosmans E, Delanghe J, De Bruijn C, Wauters A, Maes M, Jolles J, Steinbusch HW, de Vente J.   Inflammation markers in relation to cognition in a healthy aging population. J Neuroimmunol. 2003 Jan;134(1-2):142-50.

7193.   Twiddy SS, Holmes EC.  The extent of homologous recombination in members of the genus Flavivirus. J Gen Virol. 2003 Feb;84(Pt 2):429-40.

7194.   Xiong H, Boyle J, Winkelbauer M, Gorantla S, Zheng J, Ghorpade A, Persidsky Y, Carlson KA, Gendelman HE.   Inhibition of long-term potentiation by interleukin-8: implications for human immunodeficiency virus-1-associated dementia. J Neurosci Res. 2003 Feb 15;71(4):600-7.

Vaccines:

7195.   Kleymann G.Novel agents and strategies to treat herpes simplex virus infections. Expert Opin Investig Drugs  2003 Feb;12(2):165-83. 

7196.   Lin CW, Wu SC. A functional epitope determinant on domain III of the Japanese encephalitis virus envelope protein interacted with neutralizing-antibody combining sites. J Virol  2003 Feb;77(4):2600-6.

Therapy:

7197.   Atwood CS, Perry G, Smith MA.  Cerebral hemorrhage and amyloid-beta. Science. 2003 Feb 14;299(5609):1014.

 

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