Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While immunocompetent patients with herpes simplex virus meningitis can be successfully managed with symptomatic ...

HSV-2 causes genital herpes, and neurological complications include aseptic meningitis and recurrent radiculopathy. HSV-2 also causes myelitis in immunocompromised individuals. Typical features of HSV ...

Meningeal metastasis, also known as carcinomatous meningitis or leptomeningeal metastases, is a fatal complication of breast cancer that results when cancer cells infiltrate the subarachnoid space.

Viral is the most common, but other types are more dangerous ...

HSV is the only viral CNS infection that warrants empiric therapy. Other viral causes of meningitis, which outweigh bacterial causes by a factor of almost 10 in the general community, have a more ...

Herpes Simplex Encephalitis: Flair axial MRI. Note the prominent lesion in the left medial temporal lobe. A smaller lesion is present on the right. CSF PCR subsequently confirmed the diagnosis of ...

Twenty-four of 25 patients with bacterial meningitis and nine of 11 with CNS viral infection had increased LDH activity in the CSF. The mean levels were 112.8 units per milliliter in bacterial, 193 ...

Woburn, MA, 4 March 2010 - BioVex Inc, a private biotechnology company developing new generation biologics for the treatment of cancer and prevention of infectious disease, announced today that the ...