SYMPOSIUM: VIRUS DISEASES. Herpesvirus
Tomasz J. Wąsik, Aleksandra Zielińska, Jolanta Bratosiewicz-Wąsik, Beata Sikorska, Paweł P. Liberski
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Aktualn Neurol 2007, 7 (2), p. 96-107
Abstract
We review here infections of both peripheral and central nervous system caused by herpes viruses. To the most important entities one should classify: herpetic encephalitides caused by Herpes simplex virus type I and II, encephalitides caused by varicella-zoster virus, encephalitis in the course of infectious mononucleosis (the Epstein-Barr virus) and encephalitides caused by cytomegalia wirus and herpes B virus. In particular, we covered herpes viruses infections as complications of AIDS.
Keywords
herpes viruses, encephalitides, neuropathology, herpes zoster, cytomegalia virus
