| a 39-year-old man with acute mental status changes. | the incidence of herpes simplex virus (hsv) encephalitis exceeds that of other forms of acute viral encephalitis. it is widely acknowledged that the use of pcr amplification for the detection of hsv dna in cerebrospinal fluid (csf) has increased our diagnostic sensitivity for this illness, leading to the diagnosis of hsv encephalitis in a wide range of clinical presentations. it is important to distinguish hsv from other viral encephalitides because it is the only form of viral encephalitis for ... | 2002 | 12440749 |
| chancroid epidemiology in new orleans men. | epidemiologic, clinical, and microbiologic data were collected from 299 men with nonsyphilitic genital ulcer disease. one hundred eighteen (39%) were culture-positive for haemophilus ducreyi, 57 (19%) were culture-positive for herpes simplex virus, and 124 (41%) were culture-negative. patients with chancroid were significantly more likely than those with genital herpes to have been frequent users of alcohol (44% vs. 23%, p = .006). they were also more likely recently to have used cocaine (25% vs ... | 1995 | 7622888 |
| age-specific incidence of neutralization antibodies of herpes simplex virus. | sera of 1255 individuals from novi sad, varying in age from less than 1 month to 69 years, have been tested for neutralization antibodies to herpes implex virus type 1. the eight newborns tested and 97% of the 507 adults were positive, with titres ranging from 1/4 to 1/256. the titres in newborns were significantly lower than the titres in adults. after birth the maternal antibodies declined rapidly and 94% of infants at the age of greater than 6 months and less than 2 years were negative. after ... | 1976 | 185287 |