Clinical Trial: Lymphocytic Herpesviruses and Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Observational

Official Title: Molecular Methods in the Etiological Diagnostics of Acute Central Nervous System Infections: Lymphocytic Herpesviruses and PCR

Brief Summary:

Enterovirus and herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2 are the main causative agents of central nervous system infections.

Instead, the role of lymphocytic herpesviruses in the etiology of central nervous system (CNS) infections is not clear, even if there is the positive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-result for the virus.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the presence of DNA from lymphocytic herpesviruses in the CSF obtained from the immunocompetent patients with CSF pleocytosis and from the patients with normal CSF leukocyte count.

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Sponsor: PaijatHame Central Hospital

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Information By: PaijatHame Central Hospital

Dates:
Date Received: September 20, 2011
Date Started: October 2011
Date Completion: December 2013
Last Updated: September 21, 2011
Last Verified: September 2011