Treatment of Primary and Recurrent Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Induced Meningitis with Acyclovir
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 22 (2) , 239-240
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00365549009037909
Abstract
We describe therapy with acyclovir in 1 patient with acute meningitis induced by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) and in 1 patient with ascending myelitis in connection with meningitis after a primary genital HSV-2 infection. In addition, intermittent or continuous acyclovir prophylaxis against meningitis was employed in 3 patients with recurrent meningitis of probable HSV-2 etiology. Possible beneficial effects of the treatment were seen.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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