Herpes Simplex Virus Type I From a Patient With Radiculoneuropathy
- Lt Col Robert E. Morrison, MC;
- Maj Stanley A. Shatsky, MC;
- George E. Holmes;
- Col Franklin H. Top Jr, MC;
- Col Albert N. Martins, MC
- USA; USA; USA; USA
- From the Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease Service, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Tex (Dr Morrison), Department of Neurosurgery, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC (Drs Shatsky and Martins), and Department of Virology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC (Mr Holmes and Dr Top).
Abstract
Herpes simplex virus type I was isolated from the CSF of a patient with atypical lumbosacral pain. The features of this case are unusual and important in light of the current understanding of herpes-simplex-virus-associated neurological disease.
(JAMA 241:393-394, 1979)
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