ReviewViruses2017
Viral Encephalitis of Unknown Cause: Current Perspective and Recent Advances.
Review in Viruses, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.
- Viral etiology of adult encephalitis in Egypt: the role of West Nile Virus.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- The Meningitis and Encephalitis Registry of Lower Saxony, Germany (MERIN) - design and main results of circulating neurotropic pathogen surveillance, 2003 to 2023.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026Article
- Viral Infection and the Blood-Brain Barrier: Molecular Research Insights and Therapies.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Review
- Encephalitis: Predictive Role of Clinical and Diagnostic Data on Outcome-A Monocentric Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Evaluating the potential of anti-dsRNA antibodies as an alternative viral sensing tool in encephalitides of different species.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Case Report: Meningoencephalomyelitis of unknown origin in foxes (Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Autoimmune and infectious encephalitis: development of a discriminative tool for early diagnosis and initiation of therapy.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Study on the gut microbiota, HPA, and cytokine levels in infantile spasms.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
- CXCL13 in Cerebrospinal Fluid: Clinical Value in a Large Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE): From Tick to Pathology.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- UltraSEQ, a Universal Bioinformatic Platform for Information-Based Clinical Metagenomics and Beyond.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
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- Patients with Infections of The Central Nervous System Have Lowered Gut Microbiota Alpha Diversity.Current issues in molecular biology · 2022Article
- Re: Comment on "Parainfectious Anti-Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein-Associated Meningoencephalitis".Journal of movement disorders · 2022Article
- Detection and Diagnostic Value of Cytokines in Serum of Children with Acute Viral Encephalitis.Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022Article
- Micro and Nanoscale Technologies for Diagnosis of Viral Infections.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2021Review
- Toll-like Receptors in Viral Encephalitis.Viruses · 2021Review
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- Lipid-specific IgMs induce antiviral responses in the CNS: implications for progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in multiple sclerosis.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2020Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Viral encephalitis causes acute inflammation of the brain parenchyma and is a significant cause of human morbidity and mortality. Although Herpes Simplex encephalitis is the most frequent known cause of fatal sporadic encephalitis in humans, an increasingly wide range of viruses and other microbial pathogens are implicated. Up to 60% of cases of presumed viral encephalitis remain unexplained due to the failure of conventional laboratory techniques to detect an infectious agent. High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies have the potential to detect any microbial nucleic acid present in a biological specimen without any prior knowledge of the target sequence. While there remain challenges intrinsic to these technologies, they have great promise in virus discovery in unexplained encephalitis.
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