Central nervous system infection
STUDIES OF SUSTAINED HYPONATREMIA DUE TO CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION
... 2 The effects of water administration, 20 ml per kg body weight (arrow), to the patient R.S. during maximal antidiuresis (on the 14th post-[r] ...
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Anti Granulocyte Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor Autoantibodies Are a Risk Factor for Central Nervous System Infection by Cryptococcus gattii in Otherwise Immunocompetent Patients
... IMPORTANCE Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis is the most serious central nervous system (CNS) infection caused by Cryptococ- cus neoformans or C. gattii. Cryptococcus primarily infects ...
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DNA Diagnosis of Central Nervous System Infection by Mycoplasma pneumoniae
... A method of using nested polymerase chain reac- tion to detect M pneumoniae and the successful clinical application of the method in CNS mycoplasma infec- tion is described. Clinically, [r] ...
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DNA Microarrays for Virus Detection in Cases of Central Nervous System Infection
... The majority of meningitis cases in this study (56%) were caused by enteroviruses. This was not unexpected, as their prevalence over other viral causes of meningitis is well estab- lished (for a review, see reference ...
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Unusual Presentation of Central Nervous System Cryptococcal Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient
... Cryptococcus central nervous system infection in an immunocom- petent patient may be different from that commonly encountered in the ...
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STAT1 Signaling in Astrocytes Is Essential for Control of Infection in the Central Nervous System
... T. gondii infection in macrophages and other cell types, there are multiple reports that T. gondii modulates this pathway (25–27, 29, 30, 32), but whether this is relevant to astrocytes is unclear. There- fore, in ...
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Bacterial Genotyping of Central Nervous System Tuberculosis in South Africa: Heterogenic Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and Predominance of Lineage 4
... Heterogenic infection was concentrated in the first half of the study period, and it would be likely that a higher TBM prevalence increases the probability for finding genomic ...
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Fighting the Monster: Applying the Host Damage Framework to Human Central Nervous System Infections
... following infection and may undergo a caspase-induced apoptosis leading to cytokine release in response to pneumococcus ...Cryptococcus infection of HIV-infected and unin- fected ...
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Primary central nervous system plasmablastic lymphoma presenting in human immunodeficiency virus-negative but Epstein-Barr virus-positive patient: A case report
... specimen under the microscope. Immunohistochemstry staining showed that the neoplastic cells were positive for LCA (Figure 2 5), CD38 (Figure 2 6), CD79a (Figure 2 7), Plasma cell marker, Mum-1, kappa and lambda light ...
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Toxoplasma gondii Infections Alter GABAergic Synapses and Signaling in the Central Nervous System
... the nervous system is to regulate the timing, magnitude, and flow of excitatory neurotransmission, and defects in GABAergic signaling cause seizures ...microbial infection of the CNS leads to ...
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Enterovirus serotypes in patients with central nervous system and respiratory infections in Viet Nam 1997–2010
... CNS infection, acute respiratory infection and lower respiratory tract ...and central part of Viet Nam ...tract infection in hospitalized children under 2 years of age in two main paediatric ...
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Toxocariasis Presenting as Encephalomyelitis
... rates approach 80% [1, 4]. Therefore, one should also take into account blood eosinophilia, which is considered to be a reliable indicator of active helminthiasis, serum IgE, and nonspecific tests such as erythrocyte ...
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Clinical Spectrum, Diagnostic and Outcome Predictors of patients with Acute Febrile Encephalopathy in a Tertiary Hospital in South India
... This prospective observational study was done in a tertiary hospital located in Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. The study was conducted for one year duration from June 2015 to May 2016.All patients admitted ...
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Central Nervous System and Renal Vasculitis Associated With Primary Varicella Infection in a Child
... In the emergency department, her temperature was 98.6°F with pulse, 74 beats per minute; respiratory rate, 16 breaths per minute; and blood pressure, 112/70 mm Hg. Numerous healing cutaneous lesions consistent with ...
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Novel mechanisms of central nervous system damage in HIV infection
... The development of successful antiretroviral therapy has significantly reduced the percentage of HIV-infected indi- viduals who develop HIV-associated dementia; however, the percentage of individuals who are ...
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Apoptosis induced by HIV 1 infection of the central nervous system
... immune system, but its role in HIV-1–induced neurological disease is ...HIV-1 infection of the central nervous system (CNS) in an in vitro model and in brain tissue from AIDS ...HIV-1 ...
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<p>Central nervous system <em>Listeria monocytogenes</em> infection mimicking central nervous system idiopathic inflammatory demyelinating disease</p>
... CNS infection may lead to a misdiagnosis for central nervous system idiopathic inflammatory demyelinating disease (CNS IIDD), such as isolated brain stem syndrome (IBSS), multiple sclerosis ...
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CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION:
... Findings that were normal or negative included blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum calcium, bacterial and viral cultures, acute and convalescent viral titers,.. brain scan, and left carotid[r] ...
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CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM SEQUELAE IN A CHILD FOLLOWING ASEPTIC MENINGITIS ASSOCIATED WITH LEPTOSPIRAL INFECTION
... ASEPTIC MENINGITIS ASSOCIATED WITH LEPTOSPIRAL INFECTION CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM SEQUELAE IN A CHILD FOLLOWING. Services[r] ...
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Invasion of the Central Nervous System by Cryptococcus neoformans Requires a Secreted Fungal Metalloprotease
... The inability of the mpr1⌬ strain to migrate across the brain endothelium suggests that Mpr1 promotes the transcellular cross- ing of cryptococci by facilitating an aspect of a complex series of events that include ...
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