Brunel Delphine, Jacques Jérôme, Motte Jacques, Andréoletti Laurent
Laboratoire de Virologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Faculté de Médecine, 51092, Reims Cedex, Strasbourg, France.
J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Jun;45(6):2068-71. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00320-07. Epub 2007 Apr 18.
Rare cases of leukoencephalitis have been reported in infants with documented enterovirus (EV) central nervous system (CNS) infections. A case of fatal encephalitis with white matter lesions caused by echovirus 18 is described, and it highlights the role of EV CNS infection as a potential cause of leukoencephalitis in infants.
已有报告称,在有肠道病毒(EV)中枢神经系统(CNS)感染记录的婴儿中出现了罕见的白质脑炎病例。本文描述了一例由18型回声病毒引起的伴有白质病变的致命性脑炎病例,该病例突出了EV中枢神经系统感染作为婴儿白质脑炎潜在病因的作用。