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Clinically severe Epstein-Barr virus encephalitis with mild cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities in an immunocompetent adolescent: a case report
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Clinically severe Epstein-Barr virus encephalitis with mild cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities in an immunocompetent adolescent: a case report

Ilka Engelmann, Hala Nasser, Soufien Belmiloudi, Rémi Le Guern, Anny Dewilde, Louis Vallée et Didier Hober
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, Vol.76(2), pp.232-234
01/06/2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.02.024
PMID: 23535207

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Central nervous system infection EBV infection Human herpesvirus 4 Meningoencephalitis Molecular diagnostics
A 15-year-old boy developed Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) encephalitis, a rare complication of infectious mononucleosis. The severe clinical picture and the marked neuroimaging changes were in contrast with mild cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities: leukocyte count was normal and protein level was only slightly elevated. EBV DNA was detected in cerebrospinal fluid by polymerase chain reaction.

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