ENCEPHALITIS

Diagnosis, Diagnostics, Immunodiagnosis & Immunodiagnostics:

10390.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Update: West Nile virus screening of blood donations and transfusion-associated transmission--United States, 2003. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004 Apr 9;53(13):281-4.

10391.  Ishii A, Hayashi A, Ohkoshi N, Matsuno S, Shoji S. Progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity associated with anti-amphiphysin antibodies. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2004 Apr;75(4):661-2. 

10392.  Josephs KA, Rubino FA, Dickson DW. Nonvasculitic autoimmune inflammatory meningoencephalitis. Neuropathology. 2004 Jun;24(2):149-52.

10393.  Marano E, Briganti F, Tortora F, Elefante A, De Rosa A, Maiuri F, Filla A. Neurosyphilis with complex partial status epilepticus and mesiotemporal MRI abnormalities mimicking herpes simplex encephalitis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2004 Jun;75(6):833.

10394.  Montoya JG, Liesenfeld O. Toxoplasmosis. Lancet. 2004 Jun 12;363(9425):1965-76. Review.

10395.  Pardo CA, Vining EP, Guo L, Skolasky RL, Carson BS, Freeman JM. The pathology of Rasmussen syndrome: stages of cortical involvement and neuropathological studies in 45 hemispherectomies. Epilepsia. 2004 May;45(5):516-26.

10396.  Portegies P, Solod L, Cinque P, Chaudhuri A, Begovac J, Everall I, Weber T, Bojar M, Martinez-Martin P, Kennedy PG. Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of neurological complications of HIV infection. Eur J Neurol. 2004 May;11(5):297-304.

10397.  Sarkar N, Gulati S, Dar L, Broor S, Kalra V. Diagnostic dilemmas in fulminant subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). Indian J Pediatr. 2004 Apr;71(4):365-7.

 

 

Pathogenesis:

10398.  Arunachalam N, Samuel PP, Hiriyan J, Thenmozhi V, Gajanana A. Japanese encephalitis in Kerala, south India: can Mansonia (Diptera: Culicidae) play a supplemental role in transmission? J Med Entomol. 2004 May;41(3):456-61.

10399.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). West Nile virus activity--United States, June 16-22, 2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004 Jun 25;53(24):535-6.

10400.  Chan PK, Li CK, Chik KW, Lee V, Shing MM, Ng KC, Cheung JL, Fok TF, Cheng AF. Risk factors and clinical consequences of human herpesvirus 7 infection in paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. J Med Virol. 2004 Apr;72(4):668-74.

10401.  Cinque P, Nebuloni M, Santovito ML, Price RW, Gisslen M, Hagberg L, Bestetti A, Vago G, Lazzarin A, Blasi F, Sidenius N. The urokinase receptor is overexpressed in the AIDS dementia complex and other neurological manifestations. Ann Neurol. 2004 May;55(5):687-94.

10402.  Kumar P, Sulochana P, Nirmala G, Haridattatreya M, Satchidanandam V. Conserved amino acids 193-324 of non-structural protein 3 are a dominant source of peptide determinants for CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in a healthy Japanese encephalitis virus-endemic cohort. J Gen Virol. 2004 May;85(Pt 5):1131-43.

10403.  Williams RC Jr, Sugiura K, Tan EM. Antibodies to microtubule-associated protein 2 in patients with neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis Rheum. 2004 Apr;50(4):1239-47.

Vaccines:

10404.  Gould LH, Fikrig E. West Nile virus: a growing concern? J Clin Invest. 2004 Apr;113(8):1102-7. Review.

Therapy:

10405.  Langmann P, Schirmer D, Zilly M, Klinker H. Drug monitoring of pyrimethamine during maintenance therapy of toxoplasmic encephalitis in patients with advanced HIV infection during HAART. Med Sci Monit. 2004 May;10(5):PI65-9.

10406.  Popescu GA, Saquepee M, Poisson D, Prazuck T. Treatment difficulties of a listerial rhombencephalitis in an adult patient allergic to penicillins. J Clin Pathol. 2004 Jun;57(6):665-6.

10407.  Ravindra KV, Freifeld AG, Kalil AC, Mercer DF, Grant WJ, Botha JF, Wrenshall LE, Stevens RB. West Nile virus-associated encephalitis in recipients of renal and pancreas transplants: case series and literature review. Clin Infect Dis. 2004 May 1;38(9):1257-60.

 

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