Background: Herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis is the most common cause of sporadic encephalitis, with significant morbidity and mortality that are effectively reduced by antiviral treatment. Herpes simplex infection in pregnant women rarely results in encephalitis. The most common symptoms of a pregnant woman with herpes simplex infection are colds and skin vesicles. Herpetic encephalitis...

purpose: to present a case of herpes zoster ophthalmicus (hzo) with consequent posterior ischemic optic neuropathy (pion). case report: a 58-year-old woman with a history of hzo in her right eye which was under treatment presented with loss of vision to no light perception. on examination, positive relative afferent pupillary defect was detected; however the optic disc was normal on ophthalmosc...

abstract: herpes simplex encephalitis (hse) is a life threatening outcome of herpes simplex virus (hsv) infection of the central nervous system (cns). hsv accounts for 2-5 percent of all cases of encephalitis. one third of cases occur in those younger than 20 years old and one half in those older than 50 years old. clinical diagnosis is recommended in the encephalopathic, febrile patients with ...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of administering oral acyclovir in conjunction with topical acyclovir and steroids in the treatment of necrotizing herpetic keratouveitis. all patients with necrotizing herpetic keratouveits who have been consulted during 1996-1997 at the farbi eye hospital were studied . the patients were randomly assigned to two groups. in the first group, topi...

a rapid and sensitive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) and nested-pcr were used to detect bovine viral diarrhea virus 1 (bvdv-1) in bull semen. selected primers could amplify a part of the 5´utr of the bvdv genome. a 294 bp dna fragment was amplified and specificity of the results was confirmed by direct sequencing of the pcr product. prior to rna extraction, the seminal...

the objective of this study was to compare different antigen preparations to produce monoclonalantibodies against bovine leukaemia virus gp51su. the four antigen preparations for immunization ofbalb/c mice were: cl: blv-flk cell lysate, uf: a fraction of cl (between 30 and 100 kda), wvp: wholevirus particles and sp: with ion exchange chromatography, gp51su was semipurified. a total of ninesucce...

Background and objective: Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare histiocytic proliferative disorder of unknown etiology and mainly affects young children. The histological feature is granuloma-like proliferation of langerhans-type dendritic cells. Although the possible role of viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV, Human Herpes virus -4</...