The relevance of NMDA receptor antibody-specific index for diagnosis and prognosis in patients with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

MW Hümmert, KF Jendretzky, K Fricke, M Gingele… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The clinical implications of the presence of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)-
specific intrathecal immunoglobulin G synthesis and whether it determines the diagnosis of …

Case report: unilateral sixth cranial nerve palsy associated with COVID-19 in a 2-year-old child

K Knoflach, E Holzapfel, T Roser, L Rudolph… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Children have been described to show neurological symptoms in acute coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) and multisystemic inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). We present …

Viral Anterior Uveitis: A Practical and Comprehensive Review of Diagnosis and Treatment

Y Feng, R Garcia, W Rojas-Carabali… - Ocular Immunology …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Anterior uveitis is the most common type of uveitis worldwide. The etiologies of anterior
uveitis can be divided into infectious and non-infectious (idiopathic, autoimmune …

Antibody indices of infectious pathogens from serum and cerebrospinal fluid in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

K Runge, A Balla, BL Fiebich, SJ Maier… - Fluids and Barriers of …, 2022 - Springer
Introduction Infectious and immunological theories of schizophrenia have been discussed
for over a century. Contradictory results for infectious agents in association with …

Association of inflammation-related markers and diabetic retinopathy severity in the aqueous humor, but not serum of type 2 diabetic patients

L Saucedo, IB Pfister, C Schild, JG Garweg - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a frequent microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus, and
inflammatory pathways have been linked to its pathogenesis. In this retrospective …

Intrathecal Synthesis Index of Specific Anti-Treponema IgG: a New Tool for the Diagnosis of Neurosyphilis

C Alberto, C Deffert, N Lambeng, G Breville… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Neurosyphilis (NS) diagnosis is challenging because clinical signs are diverse and
unspecific, and a sensitive and specific laboratory test is lacking. We tested the performance …

Herpes simplex virus 2 meningitis in adults: a prospective, nationwide, population-based cohort study

A Jakobsen, MT Skov, L Larsen… - Clinical Infectious …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Data on the clinical presentation are scarce and prognostic factors of herpes
simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) meningitis remain unknown. Methods Prospective, nationwide …

Functional properties of measles virus proteins derived from a subacute sclerosing panencephalitis patient who received repeated remdesivir treatments

KS Schmitz, K Handrejk, L Liepina, L Bauer… - Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare but fatal late neurological
complication of measles, caused by persistent measles virus (MeV) infection of the central …

Advances in the microbiological diagnosis of herpetic retinitis

J Gueudry, B Bodaghi - Frontiers in Ophthalmology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Viral retinitis associated with herpesvirus is one of the most severe forms of uveitis and is a
potentially sight-threatening ophthalmologic disease. The prognosis is poor and a rapid and …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of intrathecal antibodies to diagnose enterovirus infections of the central nervous system

SSN Ayudhya, GJ Sips, S Bogers, LME Leijten… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Enterovirus-D68 (EV-D68) predominantly causes respiratory disease.
However, EV-D68 infections also have been associated with central nervous system (CNS) …