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Chapter 6 - Fever and Focal Cerebral Dysfunction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

By
Serena S. Spudich  and
Leah T. Le
Edited by
Rachel L. Chin ,
Bradley W. Frazee  and
Zlatan Coralic
Rachel L. Chin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Bradley W. Frazee
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Zlatan Coralic
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases , pp. 33 - 41
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Domingues, R. B., Tsanaclis, A. M., Pannuti, C. S., et al. Evaluation of range of clinical presentations of herpes simplex encephalitis by using polymerase chain reaction assay of cerebrospinal fluid samples. Clin. Infect. Dis. 1997; 25(1): 86–91.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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Ramos-Estebanez, C., Lizarraga, K. J., and Merenda, A. A systematic review on the role of adjunctive corticosteroids in herpes simplex virus encephalitis: is timing critical for safety and efficacy? Antivir. Ther. 2014; 19(2): 133–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tselis, A. C. and Booss, J. Neuroimaging of viral infections of the central nervous system in Aminoff, M. J., Boller, F., and Swaab, D. F. (eds.), Neurovirology: Handbook of Clinical Neurology Series (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014), vol. 123, p. 149.Google Scholar
Whitley, R. J., Kimberlin, D. W., and Roizman, B. Herpes simplex viruses. Clin. Infect. Dis. 1998; 26(3): 541–53.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Additional Readings

Carpenter, J., Stapleton, S., and Holliman, R. Retrospective analysis of 29 cases of brain abscess and review of the literature. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2007; 26(1): 1–11.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Domingues, R. B., Tsanaclis, A. M., Pannuti, C. S., et al. Evaluation of range of clinical presentations of herpes simplex encephalitis by using polymerase chain reaction assay of cerebrospinal fluid samples. Clin. Infect. Dis. 1997; 25(1): 86–91.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mathisen, G. E. and Johnson, J. P. Brain abscess. Clin. Infect. Dis. 1997; 25(4): 763–79.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ramos-Estebanez, C., Lizarraga, K. J., and Merenda, A. A systematic review on the role of adjunctive corticosteroids in herpes simplex virus encephalitis: is timing critical for safety and efficacy? Antivir. Ther. 2014; 19(2): 133–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tselis, A. C. and Booss, J. Neuroimaging of viral infections of the central nervous system in Aminoff, M. J., Boller, F., and Swaab, D. F. (eds.), Neurovirology: Handbook of Clinical Neurology Series (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014), vol. 123, p. 149.Google Scholar
Whitley, R. J., Kimberlin, D. W., and Roizman, B. Herpes simplex viruses. Clin. Infect. Dis. 1998; 26(3): 541–53.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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