Persistent Enterovirus Infection in Culture-Negative Meningoencephalitis: Demonstration by Enzymatic RNA Amplification
- 31 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 161 (4) , 787-791
- https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/161.4.787
Abstract
Chronic meningoencephalitis due to enterovirus infection can occur in patients with antibody deficiencies. A modified polymerase chain reaction technique demonstrated persistent echovirus 11 infection in such a patient despite negative routine viral cultures and negative routine nucleic acid hybridization. Although the sequence of echovirus 11 has not yet been determined, genomic conservation among the enteroviruses is significant, permitting detection of echovirus 11 with a primer pair and probe derived from enterovirus serotypes that have been fully sequenced. This study provides the first definitive evidence for the persistence of enterovirus infection iwth negative viral cultures.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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