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Academia Mexicana de Neurología, A.C.

2010, Number 2

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Rev Mex Neuroci 2010; 11 (2)

Old enemies, new challenges: neurot ropic vi rus in the XXI century

González DA

Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 136-140
PDF size: 110.86 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Even today, viral infections are the most important cause of meningitis. New niches have allowed these agents to continue emerging, not as new agents, but as the same old virus with additional variations to its original description. As an example, the JC virus has surged in patients using monoclonal antibodies, in opposition to its classical association with HIV. Or the herpes virus 6, previously described only in children with exanthema, now plays an important cause of limbic encephalitis in adults after receiving an organ transplant. We are facing new immunological challenges, natural and artificially induced, and it will be important that the clinician reincorporate the knowledge of the old infections and its variations to his daily practice.


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