Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
Iran with Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
... Three cytopathic strains of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) virus were isolated from brain biopsies of three patients.. These strains were isolated and mainta[r] ...
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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: case based review
... CSF sample was clear and cytology revealed predominant lymphocytosis and no red blood cells. A CSF sample was sent to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, for analysis and it showed ...
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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: evaluation with CT and MR
... Jan Brismar, Generoso G. Gascon, Kristina Vult von Steyern, and Saeed Bohlega PURPOSE: To evaluate the progression of CT and MR changes of the brain in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) as a ...
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Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis of the Brainstem as a Clinical Entity.
... Abstract: Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare progressive neurological disorder of early adolescence caused by persistent infection of the measles virus, which remains prevalent ...
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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis – current perspectives
... Introduction Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, commonly known as SSPE, is a progressive neu- rodegenerative disease caused by the persistence of measles infection commonly seen in children and ...
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A role for dual viral hits in causation of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
... 10021 Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a progressive fatal neurodegenerative disease associated with persistent infection of the central nervous system (CNS) by measles virus (MV), ...
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Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Measles Virus: Study of Biological Markers
... Comparative studies between two measles virus strains isolated from patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) and a prototype low tissue culture passage Edmonston measles [r] ...
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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in an infant: diagnostic role of viral genome analysis.
... Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is related to “defective” measles virus or vaccination, though an association with parainfluenza viruses has been ...
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Mutations Affecting Transcriptional Termination in the P Gene End of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Viruses
... Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a fatal degen- erative disease caused by persistent MV infection of the cen- tral nervous system. The molecular mechanisms of cell-to-cell spread of the ...
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Role of biased hypermutation in evolution of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis virus from progenitor acute measles virus.
... We identified an acute measles virus (Nagahata strain) closely related to a defective virus (Biken strain) isolated from a patient with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE).. The p[r] ...
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Assessment of White Matter Damage in Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Using Quantitative Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging
... These observations suggest a net loss and disorganization of the structural barriers to molecular diffusion of water in the NAWM and may be explained by documented pathologic characteristics of SSPE, like demyelination, ...
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Early and Late State Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: Chemical Shift Imaging and Single Voxel MR Spectroscopy
... BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare, progressive, inflammatory neurodegenerative disease. Our aim was to determine the metabolic abnormalities of brain in ...
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Ophthalmic examination as a means to diagnose Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: an optical coherence tomography and ultrawide field imaging evaluation
... An aberrant measles virus causes subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). This disorder causes significant neurological morbidity and has a high mortality rate [1]. The eye is involved in up to ...
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The F Gene of the Osaka-2 Strain of Measles Virus Derived from a Case of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Is a Major Determinant of Neurovirulence
... Department of Pediatrics, Izumi Municipal Hospital, Osaka 594-0071, Japan 5 Received 19 May 2010/Accepted 11 August 2010 Measles virus (MV) is the causative agent for acute measles and subacute sclerosing ...
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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis – Current perspectives
... for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis to date, but it is preventable by ensuring that an effective vaccine program for measles is made compulsory for all children younger than 5 years in endemic ...
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Isolation and Characterization of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Virus Nucleocapsids
... Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: propagation of measles virus from brain biopsy in tissue culture. Isolation and properties of the helical nucleocapsid of parainfluenza virus SV-5[r] ...
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Epidemiologic Studies of Measles, Measles Vaccine, and Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
... Epidemiologic Studies of Measles, Measles Vaccine, and Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis.. John F.[r] ...
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Role of Carbamazepine in the Symptomatic Treatment of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
... of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in a 13-year-old previously healthy boy who recently immigrated to the United States from ...of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis was ...
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Expression of defective measles virus genes in brain tissues of patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.
... Measles virus matrix protein detected by immune fluorescence with monoclonal antibodies in the brain of patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. An efficient mRNA- dependent tr[r] ...
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Electron Microscopic Observations in Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Brain Cell Cultures: Their Correlation with Cytochemical and Immunocytological Findings
... Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: propagation of measles virus from brain biopsy in tissue culture. Measles-virus antibody and antigen in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis[r] ...
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