Article: Neonatal CNS herpes is a diagnostic challenge.(Infectious Diseases)

Article: Herpes involving CNS poses diagnostic challenge.(Infectious ...
Skin & Allergy News;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... ruling in neonatal disseminated HSV infection, which ... used to rule out disseminated HSV because the test ... this setting. As in neonatal CNS herpes, up to 40% of neonates with disseminated HSV don't have skin ...

Article: Oral antivirals paramount in facial resurfacing cases
Ophthalmology Times;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... presumed to be reactivation of latent virus secondary to the trauma of the procedures. "However, one case of primary disseminated HSV-1 also has been documented in a patient who was exposed to active infection. "Due to the lack of placebo-controlled ...

Article: The incidence of recurrent herpes simplex and herpes zoster ...
Journal of Drugs in Dermatology;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... predisposition and trauma have also been suggested. (12,13) It has been suggested that malignancy is a risk factor for severe viral infections. There have been few reports of VZV and disseminated HSV in patients with multiple myeloma. Howeve

Article: Disseminated cutaneous Herpes Simplex Virus-1 in a woman with ...
Journal of Medical Case Reports;  August 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... use of TNF inhibitors and cannot say whether treatment with infliximab, steroids alone, or the drug combination caused disseminated HSV-1 in our patient. In vivo data indicate that TNF-alpha may have an antiviral effect in HSV-1 infections. In a model ...

Article: Computed tomography can identify HSV-related hepatitis in ...
Health & Medicine Week;  December 6, 2004 ;     611 words ... ... in immunocompetent adults. Most reported cases have clearly established pregnancy as a condition that can predispose to disseminated HSV infection. We report a case of a 25-year-old previously healthy pregnant woman who presented with fatigue, fever ...

Article: NEONATAL SEPSIS BY HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS (HSV) WITH FATAL OUTCOME ...
Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  May 1, 2006 ;     592 words ... ... started four hours before death. The three neonates had coagulopathy and hypertransaminasemia. Postmortem findings revealed disseminated HSV infection, and positive immunoperoxidase staining for HSV. Cerebrospinal fluid PCR for HSV was negative in the two cases ...

Article: NeuroVir Announces Preliminary Results of Phase I Clinical Study ...
PR Newswire;  July 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... well tolerated and there were no serious adverse events considered related to G207 therapy. There also was no evidence of disseminated HSV infection or shedding of G207. Of the 17 patients for whom follow-up data are available, three have had stable disease ...