ArticleNature clinical practice. Neurology2009
Fatal Epstein-Barr virus encephalitis in a 12-year-old child: an underappreciated neurological complication?
Article in Nature clinical practice. Neurology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Epstein-Barr virus and the immune microenvironment in multiple sclerosis: Insights from high-dimensional brain tissue imaging.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Epstein-Barr Virus Encephalitis: A Review of Case Reports from the Last 25 Years.Microorganisms · 2023Review
- Post-Infectious Acute Cerebellar Ataxia Treatment, a Case Report and Review of Literature.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in the Development of Neurological Disorders.Drug discovery today. Disease models · 2020Article
- Expanding the spectrum of neurological disease associated with Epstein-Barr virus activity.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2011Article
- Unusual MRI findings in an immunocompetent patient with EBV encephalitis: a case report.BMC medical imaging · 2011Article
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Abstract
backgroundA 12-year-old boy presented to a community hospital with fever, malaise and fatigue. A polymerase chain reaction test of the cerebrospinal fluid was positive for Epstein-Barr virus. Despite intensive care treatment and antiviral drugs, the patient died 1 month after his initial presentation. INVESTIGATIONS: Physical examination, polymerase chain reaction analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid, brain MRI, immunohistochemistry and molecular biological investigations of postmortem brain samples. DIAGNOSIS: Epstein-Barr Virus encephalitis. MANAGEMENT: Aciclovir, intensive care treatment with intubation, sedation, antiepileptic drugs.
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