The authors in this study examined the CSF of 35 consecutive patients referred to CEP over a 6-month period in whom no known cause of presumed viral encephalitis was identified despite extensive ...

A head CT scan was unremarkable; cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed a white ... hours was started for possible herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis. MRI fluid-attenuated inversion ...

Early recognition and treatment, especially distinguishing from viral encephalitis (VE ... serum and have not yet been compared with exosomal miRNAs from CSF in patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis.

CSF cytology, Gram stain and culture, acid-fast stain and culture, fungus culture, PCR for TB, PCR for the virus (herpes simplex virus [HSV], varicella-zoster virus [VZV], Epstein–Barr virus [EBV], ...

The City Health Office (CHO) of San Fernando on Wednesday reported 14 suspected cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in seven barangays from January 1 t ...

The neurological features of this infection include headache, dizziness, anosmia, taste disturbances, cerebrovascular accident, Guillain-Barré syndrome, acute encephalitis and acute ... was within ...

Other investigations—for example, CSF examination—are rarely helpful ... cancer in about 20% of adults—it can also be seen in viral infections, drug overdose, and as part of a postinfectious ...

such as meningitis and encephalitis. In GBS, the CSF examination shows elevated protein, with normal or slightly raised CSF white blood cell (WBC) counts. GBS is usually a post-infectious (usually ...

A positive CSF culture forMycobacterium tuberculosis and/or smear ... Other important differential diagnoses are viral meningitis, encephalitis, and fungal meningitis. Twenty eight patients did not ...

and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and neuroimaging findings.2 The extent to which these disorders were caused by the virus per se, rather than being complications of critical illness, unmasking of ...