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Diagnostic virology has now entered the mainstream of medical practice. Multiple methods are used for the laboratory diagnosis of viral infections, including viral culture, antigen detection, nucleic acid detection, and serology. The role of culture is diminishing as new immunologic and molecular tests are developed that provide more rapid results and are able to detect a larger number of viruses. This review provides specific recommendations for the diagnostic approach to clinically important viral infections.
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- G A Storch
- Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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Quereda C, Corral I, Laguna F, Valencia ME, Tenorio A, Echeverria JE, Navas E, Martín-Dávila P, Moreno A, Moreno V, Gonzalez-Lahoz JM, Arribas JR, Guerrero A. Diagnostic utility of a multiplex herpesvirus PCR assay performed with cerebrospinal fluid from human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with neurological disorders. J Clin Microbiol 2000; 38:3061-7. [PMID: 10921978 PMCID: PMC87185 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.8.3061-3067.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We used a multiplex nested-PCR assay for the simultaneous detection in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of five human herpesviruses (HVs) (cytomegalovirus [CMV], Epstein-Barr virus [EBV], varicella-zoster virus [VZV], herpes simplex virus [HSV], and human herpesvirus 6 [HHV-6]) in a clinical evaluation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with neurological disorders. This method, which has the advantages of being rapid and economical, would be of particular interest for the diagnosis of neurological syndromes caused by more than one HV. We studied 251 CSF samples from 219 patients. HV DNA was demonstrated in 93 (37%) of the CSF samples (34% of the patients). CMV was the HV most frequently detected in our patients (25%), while EBV, VZV, HSV, and HHV-6 DNAs were present in significantly fewer cases (7, 4, 3, and 1%, respectively). When results were compared with the final etiological diagnoses of the patients, the multiplex HV PCR showed high specificity for the diagnosis of CMV and VZV neurological diseases and for cerebral lymphoma (0.95, 0.97, and 0.99, respectively). The sensitivity of the assay was high for CMV disease (0.87), was low for cerebral lymphoma (0.33), and was not evaluable for VZV disease due to the small number of patients with this diagnosis. Nevertheless, detection of VZV DNA had possible diagnostic value in four of the nine cases, and EBV DNA amplification always predicted the diagnosis of cerebral lymphoma in patients with cerebral masses. Detection of HSV DNA was frequently associated with CMV amplification and fatal encephalitis. HHV-6 was not considered to have a pathogenetic role in the three cases in which it was detected. This multiplex HV PCR assay is a specific and clinically useful method for the evaluation of HIV-infected patients with neurological disorders related to HV.
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- C Quereda
- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, 28034-Madrid, Spain.
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Miller RF, Howard MR, Frith P, Perrons CJ, Pecorella I, Lucas SB. Herpesvirus infection of eye and brain in HIV infected patients. Sex Transm Infect 2000; 76:282-6. [PMID: 11026884 PMCID: PMC1744183 DOI: 10.1136/sti.76.4.282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To compare histological with genome detection methods for diagnosis of herpesvirus infection in eye and brain of HIV infected patients undergoing necropsy and to correlate these findings with both antemortem clinical findings and postmortem evidence of extraocular herpesvirus infection, especially in the CNS. METHODS A prospective study of 31 consecutive HIV infected patients undergoing necropsy. In life 11 patients had been assessed by an ophthalmologist because of ocular symptoms. Ocular and brain samples were examined for herpesviruses by conventional histological methods and by nested polymerase chain reaction (nPCR) for all eight human herpesviruses; evidence of extraneural herpesvirus infection was sought by histological methods. RESULTS Although only 12 out of 31 patients (39%) had antemortem clinical evidence of ocular or CNS herpesvirus associated disease, herpesviruses were detected by nPCR in eye and brain from 26 (84%) patients; six patients had more than one herpesvirus infection. There was concordance between ocular and CNS findings in 15 of 19 patients (79%) with CMV infection. 17 of 31 patients (55%) had extraocular or CNS CMV infection at necropsy. Genome detection using nPCR was superior to histological methods for diagnosis of ocular and CNS herpesvirus infection. CONCLUSION Herpesvirus infection of eye and brain was a frequent finding at necropsy in this group of HIV infected patients; almost a fifth were co-infected by more than one herpesvirus. This was more than twice the incidence predicted from clinical evidence before death. Genome detection using nPCR was superior to histological methods for diagnosis of ocular and CNS herpesvirus infection.
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- R F Miller
- Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Mortimer Market Centre, London.
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Before embarking on experimental therapies for progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), the diagnosis needs to be unequivocally established. Improving the underlying immunodeficiency state is the best initial approach to the management of PML. Immunosuppressive therapies should be discontinued when feasible. In the patient with AIDS, highly active antiretroviral therapy should be administered; this appears to prolong survival. At present, no therapy has been demonstrated to be effective in a well-designed prospective trial. Cytosine arabinoside, which has demonstrated efficacy in vitro against JC virus, has not been effective when administered intravenously or intrathecally to patients with AIDS and PML. The failure of regimens employing cytosine arabinoside in PML may have been the consequence of inadequate penetration of the drug to sites of infection in the brain. Other drugs with established in vitro activity against JC virus, such as topoisomerase and camptothecin, are poorly tolerated. The use of cidofovir in patients with AIDS and PML remains anecdotal, although it is currently under investigation. Interferon alfa may improve survival in patients with AIDS and PML and may have general applicability to PML regardless of the cause of the underlying immunodeficient state. Approximately 7% to 9% of patients with PML demonstrate prolonged survival (>12 months) and associated improvement in clinical and radiographic abnormalities in the absence of specific therapy. In patients with AIDS-related PML, prolonged survival correlates with PML as the presenting manifestation of AIDS, higher CD4 T-lymphocyte counts, and contrast enhancement of PML lesions on radiographic imaging. A brisk inflammatory response may also be associated with improved survival. The increased understanding of the pathophysiology of JC virus provides hope for the development of curative strategies. The growing number of persons affected with PML has allowed the organization of carefully designed therapeutic trials to address this issue.
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The neurological complications of Epstein-Barr virus infection include viral meningitis, encephalitis and neuromuscular complications. The introduction of cerebrospinal fluid polymerase chain reaction for Epstein-Barr virus DNA has improved diagnosis of these conditions and of primary central nervous system lymphoma in acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and has enabled cerebrospinal fluid monitoring of therapy. Prognosis remains good for most Epstein-Barr virus-related neurological complications; for primary central nervous system lymphoma in acquired immune deficiency syndrome the prognosis is still poor.
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- P Portegies
- Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Barbaro G, Di Lorenzo G, Soldini M, Giancaspro G, Grisorio B, Pellicelli AM, D'Amati G, Barbarini G. Clinical course of cardiomyopathy in HIV-infected patients with or without encephalopathy related to the myocardial expression of tumour necrosis factor-alpha and nitric oxide synthase. AIDS 2000; 14:827-38. [PMID: 10839591 DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200005050-00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To define whether the development of encephalopathy influences the clinical course of HIV-associated cardiomyopathy (HIV-DCM) in relation to the myocardial expression of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING University hospitals and AIDS centres. METHODS 115 HIV-infected patients with echocardiographic diagnosis of HIV-associated cardiomyopathy (34 with encephalopathy and 81 without encephalopathy) were followed for a mean of 24 +/- 3.2 months. All patients underwent endomyocardial biopsy for determination of myocardial immunostaining intensity of TNF-alpha and iNOS. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients with encephalopathy was examined for the presence of viruses. Patients underwent clinical examination every 3 months and echocardiographic examination every 6 months. The intensity of TNF-alpha and iNOS immunostaining was also evaluated on postmortem cerebral tissue of patients who died of congestive heart failure (CHF). RESULTS A greater impairment of echocardiographic parameters was observed in patients with HIV-associated cardiomyopathy after development of encephalopathy. These parameters tended to worsen progressively during the follow-up period and were inversely correlated with HIV-1 viral load, CD4 cell count, mini mental status score and the intensity of myocardial and cerebral TNF-alpha and iNOS staining. CSF specimens were available in 29 patients with encephalopathy. HIV-1 sequences were detected in CSF of all these patients with cytomegalovirus sequences in two. The mortality rate for CHF was greater among patients with encephalopathy (73% versus 12%). CONCLUSIONS The development of encephalopathy has an adverse effect on the clinical course of HIV-associated cardiomyopathy. In the relationship between cardiomyopathy and encephalopathy, the activation of iNOS by TNF-alpha may have a significant pathogenetic role in HIV disease.
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- G Barbaro
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Qutub MO, Klapper PE. Polymerase chain reaction and its value in the diagnosis of herpes simplex complex. Ann Saudi Med 2000; 20:237-40. [PMID: 17322665 DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2000.237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- M O Qutub
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Borghi MO, Panzeri P, Shattock R, Sozzani S, Dobrina A, Meroni PL. Interaction between chronically HIV-infected promonocytic cells and human umbilical vein endothelial cells: role of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines in viral expression modulation. Clin Exp Immunol 2000; 120:93-100. [PMID: 10759769 PMCID: PMC1905628 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01186.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/17/1999] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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HIV type 1 expression was significantly up-regulated in chronically infected promonocytic cell line (U1) co-cultured with human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). Virus replication, evaluated as supernatant p24 release, was higher when U1 were co-cultured with IL-1beta-activated HUVEC than with unstimulated HUVEC. When non-adherent U1 were removed from co-cultures, the remaining U1 cells adherent to the endothelial monolayer still showed enhanced HIV replication in comparison with an equal number of U1 cultured alone. While addition of adhesion molecule blocking antibodies (anti-intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), -vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), -CD18 and -very late antigen-4 (VLA-4)) strongly inhibited adherence of U1 cells to endothelial monolayers, such treatment resulted in only a partial reduction in p24 release. Furthermore, HIV replication in U1 cells was enhanced on culture in HUVEC-conditioned media. Such data suggest that soluble mediators secreted by endothelial monolayers may modulate HIV-1 expression. Indeed, addition of cytokine and chemokine antagonists to both U1/HUVEC co-cultures and to U1 cultured in HUVEC-conditioned media clearly down-regulated p24 release. Anti-IL-6, anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and, particularly, anti-MCP-1 MoAbs reduced p24 release, while anti-IL-8 polyclonal antiserum and IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) had no significant effect. Thus, the interaction between HUVEC and infected monocytic cells up-regulates HIV-1 replication predominantly through production of endothelium-derived soluble factors including MCP-1, TNF-alpha and IL-6. This phenomenon may influence the passage of HIV-1 from latency to productive replication and enhance virus spreading during physiological and/or pathological contact of monocytes with endothelium.
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- M O Borghi
- Department of Internal Medicine, IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore di Milano and IRCCS Istituto Auxologico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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Neurologic disease is commonly encountered in the population infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Although HIV-1 is responsible for many of these neurologic complications, other organisms will affect the nervous system as the immune deficiency state progresses. With the wide use of potent antiretroviral therapy, the mortality from and incidence of opportunistic infections (OIs) among persons with advanced HIV-1 infection has decreased. Nevertheless, these diseases are still seen frequently, especially among those with limited access to new antiretroviral therapies. Therefore, it remains important to recognize the most common OIs of the central nervous system (CNS) as well as primary CNS lymphoma, which will be the focus of this review.
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Giudici B, Vaz B, Bossolasco S, Casari S, Brambilla AM, Lüke W, Lazzarin A, Weber T, Cinque P. Highly active antiretroviral therapy and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: effects on cerebrospinal fluid markers of JC virus replication and immune response. Clin Infect Dis 2000; 30:95-9. [PMID: 10619739 DOI: 10.1086/313598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were examined from 7 patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) who had progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). Samples were obtained both before and after 35-365 days of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). By polymerase chain reaction, JC virus (JCV) DNA was found in 6 of 7 patients at baseline but in only 1 patient after HAART. In contrast, in 25 historical control patients from whom sequential CSF specimens were obtained, no reversion from detectable to undetectable JCV DNA was observed. By use of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, intrathecal production of antibody to JCV-VP1 was shown in only 1 of 4 HAART recipients at baseline but in 5 of 5 patients after treatment. The neuroradiological picture improved or had stabilized in all patients after 12 months of HAART, and all were alive after a median of 646 days (range, 505-775 days). Prolonged survival after HAART for PML is associated with JCV clearance from CSF. JCV-specific humoral intrathecal immunity may play a role in this response.
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- B Giudici
- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Raffaele Hospital, 20127 Milano, Italy
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Boeckh M. Management of cytomegalovirus infections in blood and marrow transplant recipients. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1999; 458:89-109. [PMID: 10549382 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4743-3_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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- M Boeckh
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Monno L, Zimatore GB, Di Stefano M, Appice A, Livrea P, Angarano G. Reduced concentrations of HIV-RNA and TNF-alpha coexist in CSF of AIDS patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1999; 67:369-73. [PMID: 10449561 PMCID: PMC1736519 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.67.3.369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To confirm reduced human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) burden in the CSF of patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) and to verify whether this viral load coincides with the absence of inflammatory changes in the CSF. METHODS Paired CSF and plasma samples from 17 patients with PML, 26 with non-PML cerebral opportunistic infections, nine with HIV-1 leukoencephalopathy (HIVE), and 12 neurologically asymptomatic AIDS patients were subjected to HIV-RNA titration. Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha was also measured and the CSF albumin: serum albumin ratio (Q(Alb)) was calculated. RESULTS The CSF HIV-1 burden of patients with PML did not differ from that of neurologically asymptomatic patients (p=0.21), but was significantly lower than CSF burden of the remaining patients (non-PML opportunistic infections, p<0.001; HIVE, p<0.001). Q(Alb) was normal for all neurologically asymptomatic patients, for 86.6% patients with PML, and 62.5% patients with HIVE (p=0.09). Q(Alb) was altered in 91.6% patients with non-PML opportunistic infections. TNF-alpha in CSF was higher in patients with non-PML opportunistic infections (p<0.001) and those with HIVE (p<0.001) than in patients with PML who consistently had TNF-alpha concentrations<10 pg/ml. CONCLUSIONS These results, while indicating a reduced HIV replication in CSF of patients with PML which might serve as a disease marker, emphasise the increased CSF HIV-RNA concentration in patients with HIVE and patients with non-PML opportunistic infections. Low concentrations of HIV-RNA in CSF coincide with reduced TNF-alpha concentrations, possibly due to particular features of PML compared with other opportunistic infections as it develops without detectable inflammatory changes in the CSF.
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- L Monno
- Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Boeckh M. Current antiviral strategies for controlling cytomegalovirus in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: prevention and therapy. Transpl Infect Dis 1999; 1:165-78. [PMID: 11428987 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3062.1999.010305.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) remains a cause of significant morbidity and mortality after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Ganciclovir prophylaxis, or preemptive treatment based on detection of antigenemia or CMV DNA by PCR, effectively prevents CMV disease during the first 100 days after transplant in allograft recipients. In recipients of T-cell depleted transplant or if severe acute graft-versus-host disease is present, ganciclovir prophylaxis or preemptive treatment should be started with an induction course of ganciclovir (5 mg/kg BID) and given at least 5 days per week and continued until day 100 after transplant. Although prevention of CMV disease before day 100 is highly effective, there is a continued risk of late-onset CMV disease after day 100. In CMV-seropositive recipients, the incidence of late CMV disease may be as high as 17%. Strategies to prevent late CMV infection and disease are needed. In seronegative recipients, seronegative or leukocyte-reduced blood products are effective in preventing acquisition of CMV through blood products. Controversy exists about the optimal strategy of preventing CMV disease in seropositive autologous HSCT recipients. The outcome of CMV pneumonia remains poor despite treatment with ganciclovir in combination with CMV hyperimmune globulin or intravenous immunoglobulin. Owing to continued clinical significance of CMV in the HSCT setting, new and more effective anti-CMV drugs with improved pharmacokinetic properties are urgently needed.
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- M Boeckh
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98109-4417, USA.
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Malm G, Forsgren M. Neonatal herpes simplex virus infections: HSV DNA in cerebrospinal fluid and serum. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 1999; 81:F24-9. [PMID: 10375358 PMCID: PMC1720963 DOI: 10.1136/fn.81.1.f24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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AIM To investigate the diagnostic potential of herpes simplex virus (HSV) DNA in cerebrospinal fluid and serum; to correlate the findings with outcome in the child and with type of maternal infection. METHODS Cerebrospinal fluid and serum specimens from 36 children with verified neonatal HSV infections, diagnosed between 1973 and 1996, were examined using the polymerase chain reaction technique (PCR). RESULTS In 21 children for whom both cerebrospinal fluid and sera were available, HSV DNA was found in one or both specimens in 19 (90%). Overall, HSV DNA was found in the cerebrospinal fluid of 74% of 27 children, and in the sera of 20 out of 30 children (67%). In two children HSV DNA was not demonstrable in either serum or cerebrospinal fluid. In sequential specimens from four children, the persistence of HSV DNA after the end of intravenous treatment was associated with a poor prognosis. CONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that HSV DNA detection in CSF and serum is highly sensitive for the diagnosis of neonatal HSV infections but does not replace the detection of virus in other locations using virus isolation and antigen detection.
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- G Malm
- Department of Paediatrics B68 Huddinge University Hospital Karolinska Institute 14186 Huddinge SE-1 Sweden
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Classification, pathogenesis and molecular pathology of primary central nervous system lymphomas (PCNSL) pose major clinico-pathologic problems. Application of histopathologic classification schemes developed for nodal lymphomas, i.e. the Kiel Classification and the Working Formulation, is not reliable and clinically not relevant for PCNSL. The more recent REAL Classification will simplify subtyping of PCNSL, but reliability and clinical significance remain to be determined. There are virtually no experimental data on whether PCNSL develop outside of the brain, or whether they arise from polyclonal lymphoproliferations within the brain. Mutations of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes have been analyzed in only a few tumors, and their type and frequency is essentially unknown. In conclusion, compared with both neuroectodermal brain tumors and nodal lymphomas, and given the increasing incidence and clinical impact of PCNSL, there is a remarkable lack of histopathologic consensus as well as a surprising shortage of pathogenetic and molecular genetic information.
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- W Paulus
- Institute of Neuropathology, University of Münster, Germany.
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Enbom M, Wang FZ, Fredrikson S, Martin C, Dahl H, Linde A. Similar humoral and cellular immunological reactivities to human herpesvirus 6 in patients with multiple sclerosis and controls. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY 1999; 6:545-9. [PMID: 10391860 PMCID: PMC95725 DOI: 10.1128/cdli.6.4.545-549.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Several studies have suggested an association between human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) and multiple sclerosis (MS). We have previously studied intrathecal production of antibody to lymphotropic herpesviruses in MS patients and the presence of human herpesvirus 1 to 7 DNAs in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). In the present study anti-HHV-6 immunoglobulin M (IgM) in serum and anti-HHV-6 IgG subclasses in serum and CSF were examined and the lymphoproliferative response to HHV-6 was analyzed. The PCR examination was refined by purifying DNA from CSF and retesting the samples for HHV-6 DNA. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups concerning IgM positivity, distribution of IgG subclasses, or lymphoproliferative response to HHV-6. The purification of DNA increased the number of PCR-positive samples from 0 of 71 to 4 of 68. The study does not give additional support to the possibility that HHV-6 is a common cause of MS, but a role for the virus in a subset of patients cannot be excluded.
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- M Enbom
- Department of Virology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Pozo F, Tenorio A. Detection and typing of lymphotropic herpesviruses by multiplex polymerase chain reaction. J Virol Methods 1999; 79:9-19. [PMID: 10328531 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-0934(98)00164-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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A multiplex nested-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was developed for the simultaneous detection and typing of all human lymphotropic herpesviruses described to date, including Ebstein Barr virus (EBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), human herpesvirus 6, variants A and B (HHV6-A, HHV6-B), human herpesvirus 7 (HHV7) and human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8). Oligonucleotide primers were designed to amplify a highly conserved region within the DNA polymerase gene. Each reaction component and thermal cycling parameters were thoroughly standardized to achieve optimal specificity and sensitivity for the PCR assay, which was estimated at about 10-100 molecules for each virus. An internal control, consisting of 100 molecules of a cloned fragment of the porcine pseudorabies herpesvirus (PrV) genome, was included to detect false negative results. To assess suitability and clinical application of the multiplex PCR method, a total of 35 well-characterized specimens, including Kaposi's sarcoma skin lesions, serum, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva and urine samples, were tested. Results obtained suggest this technique could be applied as a sole diagnostic tool in several clinical settings in which herpesviral infection is suspected and differential diagnosis required, avoiding the need to test specimens by separate PCR methods.
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- F Pozo
- Servicio de Microbiología Diagnóstica, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
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Minjolle S, Michelet C, Jusselin I, Joannes M, Cartier F, Colimon R. Amplification of the six major human herpesviruses from cerebrospinal fluid by a single PCR. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:950-3. [PMID: 10074507 PMCID: PMC88630 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.4.950-953.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We used a novel type of primer system, a system that uses stair primers, in which the primer sequences are based on consensus sequences in the DNA polymerase gene of herpesvirus to detect herpesviruses by PCR. A single PCR in a single tube detected the six major herpesviruses that infect the central nervous system: herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), and type 2 (HSV-2), cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), varicella-zoster virus (VZV), and human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6). We used the technique to analyze 142 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples that had been stored at -80 degrees C and compared the results with those obtained previously for the same samples by standard, targeted PCR. Four hundred one targeted PCR tests had been run with the 142 samples to detect HSV-1, HSV-2, CMV, and VZV; screening for EBV and HHV-6 was not prescribed when the samples were initially taken. Eighteen CSF samples tested positive by classic targeted PCR. The herpesvirus consensus PCR detected herpesviruses in 37 samples, including 3 samples with coinfections and 17 viral isolates which were not targeted. Two samples identified as infected by the targeted PCR tested negative by the consensus PCR, and eight samples that tested positive by the consensus PCR were negative by the targeted PCR. One hundred three samples scored negative by both the targeted and the consensus PCRs. This preliminary study demonstrates the value of testing for six different herpesviruses simultaneously by a sensitive and straightforward technique rather than screening only for those viruses that are causing infections as suggested by clinical signs.
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MESH Headings
- Consensus Sequence
- Cytomegalovirus/genetics
- Cytomegalovirus/isolation & purification
- DNA, Viral/cerebrospinal fluid
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Diagnostic Errors
- Evaluation Studies as Topic
- Herpesviridae/classification
- Herpesviridae/genetics
- Herpesviridae/isolation & purification
- Herpesviridae Infections/cerebrospinal fluid
- Herpesviridae Infections/diagnosis
- Herpesviridae Infections/virology
- Herpesvirus 1, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 1, Human/isolation & purification
- Herpesvirus 2, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 2, Human/isolation & purification
- Herpesvirus 3, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 3, Human/isolation & purification
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/isolation & purification
- Herpesvirus 6, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 6, Human/isolation & purification
- Humans
- Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
- Polymerase Chain Reaction/statistics & numerical data
- Sensitivity and Specificity
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- S Minjolle
- Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie, CHU Pontchaillou, Rennes, France
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Antinori A, Larocca LM, Fassone L, Cattani P, Capello D, Cingolani A, Saglio G, Fadda G, Gaidano G, Ortona L. HHV-8/KSHV is not associated with AIDS-related primary central nervous system lymphoma. Brain Pathol 1999; 9:199-208. [PMID: 10219737 PMCID: PMC8098287 DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.1999.tb00218.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a major complication of the late stages of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. Epstein Barr virus (EBV) infection is the only genetic lesion consistently associated with this neoplasia. Recently, it has been proposed that the pathogenesis of AIDS-related PCNSL (AIDS-PCNSL) may be associated with infection by human herpesvirus-8/Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (HHV-8/KSHV), although at present such association remains controversial. In order to conclusively assess the link between HHV-8/KSHV infection and AIDS-PCNSL, we performed a comprehensive study based on multiple molecular assays on cerebral tissues and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as well as specific immunologic assays on patients' sera. A well characterized panel of 33 Italian patients with AIDS-PCNSL and 13 controls with other HIV-related brain focal diseases from the same geographical area was analyzed. No signs of HHV-8/KSHV infection were detected in cerebral tissues by single-step PCR. Cerebral tissues of all AIDS-PCNSL scored negative for HHV-8/KSHV DNA sequences also by nested PCR, with the exception of one single patient who was simultaneously affected by Kaposi's sarcoma. All CSF samples analyzed were consistently devoid of HHV-8/KSHV sequences by molecular assays. By serologic assays, detecting both latent and lytic HHV-8/KSHV antigens, a specific immunoreactivity was observed in 16/33 (48%) AIDS-PCNSL and in 6/13 (46%) controls (P = 0.88). A significant correlation with HHV-8/KSHV serum reactivity was seen with a homosexual route of HIV transmission (P = 0.018), but not with the presence of AIDS-PCNSL. The results of our analysis conclusively assess that HHV-8/KSHV infection is not a feature of AIDS-PCNSL.
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- A Antinori
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Catholic University, Roma, Italy.
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Casas I, Pozo F, Trallero G, Echevarría JM, Tenorio A. Viral diagnosis of neurological infection by RT multiplex PCR: a search for entero- and herpesviruses in a prospective study. J Med Virol 1999; 57:145-51. [PMID: 9892399 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9071(199902)57:2<145::aid-jmv10>3.0.co;2-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The diagnosis of a wide range of different neurological syndromes was established by a reverse transcription multiplex PCR assay. The presence of enterovirus and herpesviruses was studied in cerebrospinal fluid samples collected prospectively from 200 patients hospitalized with neurological diseases suspected of viral infection. Positive PCR results for enterovirus and neurotropic herpesvirus (herpes simplex, HSV, and varicella zoster, VZV) were obtained among the immunocompetent patients (55/156, 35%) who presented aseptic meningitis or encephalitis. Among immunocompromised patients the yield of positive PCR results was 41% (18/44), predominantly lymphotropic herpesviruses (15/44, 34%). Cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA was detected in patients with several clinical syndromes, including encephalitis, chronic meningitis, retinitis, ventriculitis, polyradiculomyelitis, and myeloradiculitis. Epstein-Barr (EBV) and VZV-specific DNA sequences were detected in patients with either encephalitis, aseptic meningitis, and chronic meningitis. Dual infections of CMV and HSV or CMV and EBV were established in two AIDS patients with encephalitis and polyradiculomyelitis, respectively. The applications of this RT multiplex PCR assay are extensive and may prove to be particularly valuable for the rapid and sensitive diagnosis of neurological diseases in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients.
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- I Casas
- Service of Diagnostic Microbiology, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.
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Ferrari S, Monaco S, Morbin M, Zanusso G, Bertolasi L, Cerini R, Rizzuto N. HIV-associated PML presenting as epilepsia partialis continua. J Neurol Sci 1998; 161:180-4. [PMID: 9879702 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(98)00281-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Two patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 infection presented new-onset epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) as an early manifestation of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). EPC occurred with no other seizures and was associated with negative radiographic and electrophysiological findings for several weeks. PML represents an increasingly recognized cause of new-onset seizures in both seropositive and seronegative patients, with no report of EPC as a presenting complaint.
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- S Ferrari
- Department of Neurological and Visual Sciences, University of Verona, Italy
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Prösch S, Schielke E, Reip A, Meisel H, Volk HD, Einhäupl KM, Krüger DH. Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) encephalitis in an immunocompetent young person and diagnostic reliability of HCMV DNA PCR using cerebrospinal fluid of nonimmunosuppressed patients. J Clin Microbiol 1998; 36:3636-40. [PMID: 9817887 PMCID: PMC105254 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.12.3636-3640.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) encephalitis in adult nonimmunosuppressed patients has rarely been reported. We have diagnosed HCMV encephalitis in an anti-HCMV immunoglobulin G-negative, nonimmunosuppressed young woman by HCMV DNA PCR and virus isolation from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). At the same time, HCMV antigen and HCMV DNA could be demonstrated in peripheral blood leukocytes, and the virus was isolated in fibroblast cultures. After 22 days of acute illness, the virus disappeared from the CSF. Remarkably, the patient did not generate detectable anti-HCMV antibodies within 5 months after the beginning of illness. To investigate the significance of HCMV DNA detection in CSF, samples of CSF, blood cells, and serum from 35 nonimmunosuppressed patients with various neurological disorders (but no herpes simplex virus central nervous system [CNS] disease) were tested for HCMV DNA, antigen, and antibodies. Eleven of these patients were found to be positive for virus DNA and/or antigen in peripheral blood leukocytes. Additionally, HCMV DNA was detected in the CSF of two patients with noninflammatory CNS diseases. A causative role of HCMV in the CNS diseases of these two patients was not evident. In summary, HCMV DNA amplification from CSF samples is a very suitable method to verify HCMV-associated encephalitis, but it should be taken into consideration that there are few cases of positive PCR with DNA from CSF without any known clinical correlative.
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- S Prösch
- Departments of Medical Virology, Charité Medical School, Humboldt University, D-10098 Berlin, Germany
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Contini C, Fainardi E, Cultrera R, Canipari R, Peyron F, Delia S, Paolino E, Granieri E. Advanced laboratory techniques for diagnosing Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis in AIDS patients: significance of intrathecal production and comparison with PCR and ECL-western blotting. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 92:29-37. [PMID: 9916877 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(98)00160-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) Toxoplasma gondii DNA was combined with the study of intrathecal antibody synthesis by antibody specific index calculation (ASI) and the detection of specific oligoclonal IgG bands (OCB) by affinity mediated immunoblotting (AMI) in 11 AIDS patients with T. gondii encephalitis (TE) and in 20 control patients with or without neurological disorders. Enhanced chemiluminescence (ECL) western-blot technique was employed to evaluate the antigenic specificity of CSF-IgG towards individual T. gondii antigens. PCR was positive in all TE patients which displayed brain-derived or blood-derived specific OCB, even when comparative ASI failed. Four TE patients had a unique anti-T. gondii OCB restricted to the CSF and a strong antibody response toward the 29 kDa band by ECL western blot. This response could be an important marker to discriminate TE from other opportunistic central nervous system (CNS) infections in the course of AIDS.
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- C Contini
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Italy.
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Brink NS, Sharvell Y, Howard MR, Fox JD, Harrison MJ, Miller RF. Detection of Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus DNA in CSF from persons infected with HIV who had neurological disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1998; 65:191-5. [PMID: 9703169 PMCID: PMC2170217 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.65.2.191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency and clinical relevance of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV) DNA detection in the CSF from patients infected with HIV. METHODS Cerebrospinal fluid was obtained prospectively from 115 consecutive patients infected with HIV undergoing diagnostic lumbar puncture for investigation of neurological disease. Amplification of DNA was performed using a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of EBV internal repeat and KSHV minor capsid sequences. RESULTS EBV DNA was detected in the CSF supernatant of 18 patients. This included all patients with primary CNS lymphoma (seven patients) or a combination of systemic and CNS lymphoma (two patients). By contrast EBV DNA was not detected in the CSF supernatant of any patient with systemic, but not CNS, lymphoma (10 patients). EBV DNA was also detected in the supernatant of nine further patients without a diagnosis of lymphoma at the time of lumbar puncture, two of whom subsequently developed CNS lymphoma. No EBV DNA was detected in CSF supernatant from the remaining 87 samples (two of these patients subsequently developed lymphoma). KSHV DNA was detected in the CSF of two patients, one had systemic (but not CNS) lymphoma and the other did not have lymphoma. CONCLUSION A diagnosis of CNS lymphoma is strongly associated with the presence of EBV DNA in CSF. In the absence of clinical and radiological features of CNS lymphoma, the presence of detectable CSF EBV DNA may predict subsequent tumour development. KSHV DNA is rarely detected in CSF in this patient group and shows no correlation with lymphoma or other neurological disease.
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- N S Brink
- Department of Virology, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust and University College London Medical School, UK
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Cinque P, Vago L, Mengozzi M, Torri V, Ceresa D, Vicenzi E, Transidico P, Vagani A, Sozzani S, Mantovani A, Lazzarin A, Poli G. Elevated cerebrospinal fluid levels of monocyte chemotactic protein-1 correlate with HIV-1 encephalitis and local viral replication. AIDS 1998; 12:1327-32. [PMID: 9708412 DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199811000-00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the CC-chemokine monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP)-1 could play a role in the pathogenesis of HIV infection of the central nervous system. This hypothesis was suggested by previous observations, including our finding of elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of this chemokine in patients with cytomegalovirus (CMV) encephalitis. DESIGN AND METHODS CSF levels of MCP-1 were determined in 37 HIV-infected patients with neurological symptoms, and were compared with both the presence and severity of HIV-1 encephalitis at post-mortem examination and CSF HIV RNA levels. MCP-1 production by monocyte-derived macrophages was tested after in vitro infection of these cells by HIV. RESULTS CSF MCP-1 levels were significantly higher in patients with (median, 4.99 ng/ml) than in those without (median, 1.72 ng/ml) HIV encephalitis. Elevated CSF MCP-1 concentrations were also found in patients with CMV encephalitis and with concomitant HIV and CMV encephalitis (median, 3.14 and 4.23 ng/ml, respectively). HIV encephalitis was strongly associated with high CSF MCP-1 levels (P = 0.002), which were also correlated to high HIV-1 RNA levels in the CSF (P = 0.007), but not to plasma viraemia. In vitro, productive HIV-1 infection of monocyte-derived macrophages upregulated the secretion of MCP-1. CONCLUSIONS Taken together, these in vivo and in vitro findings support a model whereby HIV encephalitis is sustained by virus replication in microglial cells, a process amplified by recruitment of mononuclear cells via HIV-induced MCP-1.
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- P Cinque
- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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Monno L, Di Stefano M, Zimatore GB, Andreula CF, Appice A, Perulli LM, Fiore JR, Pastore G, Angarano G. Measurement of viral sequences in cerebrospinal fluid of AIDS patients with cerebral white-matter lesions using polymerase chain reaction. AIDS 1998; 12:581-90. [PMID: 9583597 DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199806000-00006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To optimize the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for the evaluation of central nervous system (CNS) white-matter lesions that along with clinical findings and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can allow a definite diagnosis to be made; also to evaluate treatment with zidovudine plus foscarnet. DESIGN AND METHODS Fifteen AIDS patients with uncertain CNS white-matter lesions were identified. HIV-1 RNA, cytomegalovirus (CMV) and JC virus (JCV) DNA were measured in a total of 29 CSF samples. The results were correlated with clinical and MRI findings and treatment with zidovudine plus foscarnet was evaluated. RESULTS Four and five out of 15 patients with CMV DNA > or = 1 : 625 and JCV DNA > or = 10(3) copies/microl detected in the CSF were diagnosed with CMV and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), respectively. Six patients who were CMV/JCV-negative with the highest levels of HIV RNA (median, 6.87 log10 copies/ml) in CSF were considered as having HIV-1 encephalitis. Neurological symptoms were non-supportive for diagnosis as was MRI in 11 out of 15 patients. Nine patients completed a 21-day course of zidovudine plus foscarnet. HIV RNA decreased irrespective of neurological diagnosis. All three HIV-1 encephalitis patients and two out of three patients with CMV leukoencephalopathy improved. In these two latter patients, relief of clinical symptoms coincided with decreased CMV DNA. JCV DNA remained unchanged and all three PML patients deteriorated. CONCLUSIONS Measurement of CSF viral sequences supports the diagnosis of CNS white-matter lesions in AIDS patients. While effective therapy for PML remains elusive, treatment including zidovudine plus foscarnet may be a promising option for HIV-1 and CMV-related manifestations.
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- L Monno
- Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University of Bari, Italy
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Ferrante P, Omodeo-Zorini E, Caldarelli-Stefano R, Mediati M, Fainardi E, Granieri E, Caputo D. Detection of JC virus DNA in cerebrospinal fluid from multiple sclerosis patients. Mult Scler 1998; 4:49-54. [PMID: 9599333 DOI: 10.1177/135245859800400202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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JC virus (JCV), the causative agent of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), has been proposed as a possible aetiopathogenic factor in multiple sclerosis (MS). We performed a study to search the LT region of JCV genome by nested PCR in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) and urine samples collected from 121 MS patients, 24 patients with other neurological disorders (OND), 30 non neurological patients (NND) and in PBMCs and urine of 40 healthy subjects. JCV DNA has been found in the CSF of 11 MS patients (9%) while all the CSFs from the 24 OND and the 30 NND cases were negative. No significant differences have been observed as regard to the frequency of JCV DNA detection in PBMCs and urine between the MS patients and the control groups. Nucleotide sequences analysis of seven JCV CSF isolates showed that five strains were identical the prototypal strain, while the other two had a base mutation (T-->C) in 4286 nucleotide (nt). The finding of JCV DNA in the CSF of MS patients suggest that JCV could play a role in the triggering and/or in the maintenance of MS aetiopathogenic process, and therefore it should be taken in consideration when monitoring this disease.
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- P Ferrante
- Laboratory of Biology, Don C. Gnocchi Foundation, IRCCS (Research Hospital), Milan, Italy
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Cinque P, Giudici B, Bossolasco S. The application of the polymerase chain reaction of cerebrospinal fluid in the clinical management of AIDS-related CNS disorders. AIDS Patient Care STDS 1998; 12:287-94. [PMID: 11361955 DOI: 10.1089/apc.1998.12.287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In AIDS patients central nervous system (CNS) illness may be caused by HIV disease itself or by opportunistic agents, resulting in serious morbidity such as behavioral and motor disturbances, meningitis or encephalitis, among other disorders. Early diagnosis can allow specific treatment (e.g., antimicrobial treatment) that may prevent, ameliorate, or slow the catastrophic sequelae of infection, as well as reduce the need for expensive diagnostic procedures. Conventional microbiology techniques have proven inadequate for the diagnosis of most AIDS-related CNS diseases. However, the development in the past decade of the application of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to clinical specimens has facilitated the early diagnosis of a number of infectious diseases in these patients. The technique permits the amplification of target nucleic acids such that common laboratory methods may then be used for diagnosis. The application of PCR to cerebrospinal fluid for early diagnosis of AIDS-related neurologic complications has been an impressive example of the application of PCR and may form the basis of new algorithms for diagnosis and possibly the evaluation of treatment protocols.
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- P Cinque
- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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Cinque P, Vago L, Ceresa D, Mainini F, Terreni MR, Vagani A, Torri W, Bossolasco S, Lazzarin A. Cerebrospinal fluid HIV-1 RNA levels: correlation with HIV encephalitis. AIDS 1998; 12:389-94. [PMID: 9520168 DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199804000-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Neuropathological abnormalities induced by HIV-1 are not always predictable on the basis of the presence of HIV-related neurological symptoms. HIV-1 RNA load was measured in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of HIV-infected patients to verify whether it could be a marker of HIV-induced neuropathology. DESIGN AND METHODS Histopathological and immunohistochemical examination of the brain for HIV-1 p24 antigen was performed in 50 HIV-infected patients with neurological symptoms; patients were defined as having HIV encephalitis in the presence of HIV-related lesions or HIV-1 p24 antigen-positive cells. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction for HIV-1 RNA was retrospectively applied to CSF samples that had been drawn 1-60 days prior to death from these 50 patients; paired plasma samples of 28 patients were also analysed. RESULTS The CSF HIV-1 RNA copy numbers were significantly higher in 22 patients with HIV encephalitis than in 28 patients without (median, 4.77 log10 versus 3.45 log10 copies/ml; P = 0.0003). No correlation was found between CSF HIV-1 RNA load and the presence of opportunistic brain pathologies at post-mortem examination or between HIV-1 RNA loads in paired CSF and plasma samples. CONCLUSIONS High CSF HIV-1 RNA levels are associated with HIV encephalitis, regardless of the presence of opportunistic brain diseases or HIV-1 RNA levels in plasma. Quantitative CSF HIV-1 RNA may therefore be used as a specific marker of HIV-induced neuropathology.
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- P Cinque
- Infectious Diseases Division, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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Harada H, Tamaoka A, Yoshida H, Ohkoshi N, Mochizuki A, Hayashi A, Shoji S. Horner's syndrome associated with mononeuritis multiplex due to cytomegalovirus as the initial manifestation in a patient with AIDS. J Neurol Sci 1998; 154:91-3. [PMID: 9543329 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(97)00204-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We report on a 60-year-old male with AIDS who presented Horner's syndrome that was associated with mononeuritis multiplex due to cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. This is the first case who presented Homer's syndrome in the course of AIDS. Horner's syndrome associated with mononeuritis multiplex in this patient was the initial manifestation without any opportunistic infections. Since Horner's syndrome and mononeuritis multiplex in the present case were both improved by ganciclovir, it is important to consider CMV infection when Horner's syndrome or mononeuritis multiplex is observed in immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV-1 infection or AIDS, even if they do not show any other opportunistic infections.
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- H Harada
- Department of Neurology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Miller RF, Brink NS, Cartledge J, Sharvell Y, Frith P. Necrotising herpetic retinopathy in patients with advance HIV disease. Genitourin Med 1997; 73:462-6. [PMID: 9582461 PMCID: PMC1195925 DOI: 10.1136/sti.73.6.462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To describe the presenting features, clinical and laboratory diagnosis, response to treatment, and outcome of necrotising herpetic retinopathy (NHR) in HIV infected patients. METHODS Retrospective case records/laboratory data review of five HIV infected patients presenting to the specialist HIV/AIDS unit at UCL Hospitals, London from April 1994 to August 1996 with a clinical diagnosis of NHR. RESULTS All patients had advanced HIV disease with a median CD4 count of 20.10(6)/1. Three patients had cutaneous varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection within the preceding 8 weeks. All had uniocular loss of visual acuity; one also had headache and another ocular pain. All had typical retinal appearances. VZV DNA was detected in cerebrospinal fluid of four patients (and in vitreous fluid of one of the four) and in vitreous fluid of one other. One patient refused therapy and rapidly became blind. Four patients received intravenous foscarnet with intravenous aciclovir for 6 weeks: three subsequently received oral famciclovir and one oral valaciclovir; two patients also had intravitreal injections of foscarnet. In none of the four did treatment bring about improvement in visual acuity, but in all four visual loss from retinitis was halted. CONCLUSIONS NHR occurs in HIV infected patients with advanced HIV disease and is strongly associated with evidence of VZV infection. With aggressive use of antiviral drugs the outcome is not uniformly poor.
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- R F Miller
- Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, UCL Medical School, London
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Ellis RJ, Hsia K, Spector SA, Nelson JA, Heaton RK, Wallace MR, Abramson I, Atkinson JH, Grant I, McCutchan JA. Cerebrospinal fluid human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA levels are elevated in neurocognitively impaired individuals with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center Group. Ann Neurol 1997; 42:679-88. [PMID: 9392566 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410420503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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To determine whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) viral burden measurements can assist in the evaluation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated neurocognitive disorders, we quantified HIV type 1 (HIV-1) RNA in CSF. Because previous findings suggested that disease stage, lymphocytic pleocytosis, and HIV-1 RNA levels in plasma may influence CSF viral burden, these variables were examined as potential modifying factors. HIV-1 RNA levels were quantified by using a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay. Performance on a comprehensive neuropsychological (NP) battery was noted in 97 prospectively enrolled, HIV-infected subjects. Among subjects with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (<200 CD4+ lymphocytes), NP impairment was associated with significantly higher CSF RNA levels (3.1 vs 1.8 log10 copies/ml; p = 0.02); most impaired subjects met criteria for HIV-associated dementia or minor cognitive-motor disorder. In subjects without AIDS, CSF RNA and NP impairment were unrelated. Before AIDS, CSF RNA was strongly correlated to plasma RNA and to pleocytosis, but in AIDS, CSF and plasma RNA were independent. In conclusion, we found elevated CSF HIV-1 RNA levels in NP impaired subjects with AIDS. Before AIDS, systemic viral replication, possibly through CD4+ mononuclear cell trafficking, may govern virus levels in CSF, whereas in AIDS, CD4 cell depletion may unmask a correlation between increased productive central nervous system HIV infection and clinical neurocognitive disorders.
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- R J Ellis
- Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, 92103, USA
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Linde A, Klapper PE, Monteyne P, Echevarria JM, Cinque P, Rozenberg F, Vestergaard BF, Ciardi M, Lebon P, Cleator GM. Specific diagnostic methods for herpesvirus infections of the central nervous system: a consensus review by the European Union Concerted Action on Virus Meningitis and Encephalitis. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC VIROLOGY 1997; 8:83-104. [PMID: 9316731 DOI: 10.1016/s0928-0197(97)00015-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Herpesvirus infections of the central nervous system are often severe but are fortunately rare. The incidence of these infections has however, increased in recent years as a consequence of an increase in the number of immune-compromised individuals. New diagnostic procedures have improved our ability to diagnose these infections and herpesviruses may yet be implicated as the cause of further neurological diseases with no known aetiology. Methodological standards for selection and evaluation of patient materials are essential to the provision of reliable diagnosis, yet few studies have addressed this important issue. OBJECTIVES To describe and define methodological standards and reference methodology for diagnosis of herpesvirus infections of the CNS. STUDY DESIGN Information gathered by literature review. RESULTS Only for herpes simplex encephalitis is there sufficient data to allow the definition of reference methodology. Good methodological standards exist but few studies have adhered to these standards. As methods for the detection of specific intrathecal antibody synthesis are well established yet under-used in diagnostic virology, the principle of these measurements is reviewed in some detail. CONCLUSIONS Herpesvirus infections of the CNS are of increasing importance. High quality, multi-centre studies are needed to establish the value of the new diagnostic test procedures if further improvement in the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of these procedures is to be achieved.
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- A Linde
- Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK
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Ferrante P, Caldarelli-Stefano R, Omodeo-Zorini E, Cagni AE, Cocchi L, Suter F, Maserati R. Comprehensive investigation of the presence of JC virus in AIDS patients with and without progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. J Med Virol 1997; 52:235-42. [PMID: 9210030 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9071(199707)52:3<235::aid-jmv1>3.0.co;2-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a viral-induced demyelinating disease, is becoming relatively common, while many diagnostic and pathogenetic aspects remain to be clarified. A study was therefore undertaken in 64 AIDS patients suffering from various neurological disorders, including PML (12 subjects), with the specific objective of searching for JC virus (JCV) DNA by nested PCR (n-PCR) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), and urine collected from all patients. CSF examination, CD4 and CD8 counts, neurological examinations, and neuroradiological investigations were undertaken. JCV DNA was detected in 92% of CSF specimens in 75% of the PBMCs and urine samples from the PML patients, whereas among the non-PML patients JCV DNA was not detected in any CSF samples, but was found in 10% of PBMCs and in 39% of the urine specimens. BKV and JCV DNA viruria was observed simultaneously in 6% of the AIDS patients without PML. The routine CSF tests including IgG oligoclonal bands, the Link, and Tourtellotte IgG indexes, did not show a typical pattern in PML cases. The data obtained clearly indicate that the detection of JCV DNA in CSF constitutes an efficient marker for PML diagnosis. The simultaneous presence of JCV DNA in the CSF, PBMCs, and urine samples from the PML patients, who did not differ from controls with regard to their immunosuppressive status, suggests that JCV could be carried into the central nervous system (CNS) by infected PBMCs.
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- P Ferrante
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Milan, Italy
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Mussini C, Mongiardo N, Manicardi G, Trenti F, Alessandrì A, Paolillo F, Catania A, Portolani M, Pecorari M, Borghi V, Ficarra G, Cossarizza A, De Rienzo B. Relevance of clinical and laboratory findings in the diagnosis of cytomegalovirus encephalitis in patients with AIDS. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1997; 16:437-44. [PMID: 9248746 DOI: 10.1007/bf02471907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A retrospective evaluation was conducted in patients with AIDS and an autopsy diagnosis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) encephalitis to determine the relevance of clinical and laboratory findings in establishing a diagnosis. On autopsy of 100 patients, CMV encephalitis was diagnosed in 13 patients; eight had periventricular CMV encephalitis, four micronodular CMV encephalitis, and one both conditions. Seven patients had had a CMV infection previously (6 cases of retinitis, 1 case of colitis), and at the onset of encephalitis all of them were receiving a maintenance dose of ganciclovir. Examination of the CSF showed specific changes in patients with periventricular encephalitis. CT revealed no characteristic findings, while MRI showed an increased signal intensity on T2 weighted images. CMV DNA amplification by nested PCR was performed in nine patients with CMV encephalitis; PCR was positive in eight patients whose CSF was collected during CMV encephalitis, and negative in one patient whose CSF was collected six months before death. In conclusion, some clinical findings suggest a presumptive diagnosis, especially of periventricular encephalitis, and nested PCR appears to be a reliable and rapid technique for making an antemortem diagnosis.
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- C Mussini
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Modena, Italy
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Martin C, Enbom M, Söderström M, Fredrikson S, Dahl H, Lycke J, Bergström T, Linde A. Absence of seven human herpesviruses, including HHV-6, by polymerase chain reaction in CSF and blood from patients with multiple sclerosis and optic neuritis. Acta Neurol Scand 1997; 95:280-3. [PMID: 9188902 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1997.tb00210.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Several members of the herpesvirus family have been implicated in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS). Recently, HHV-6 viral antigen has been demonstrated in association to MS plaques, as well as DNA from human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) in cerebrospinal fluid from a few MS patients by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In the present study, CSF from patients with MS, optic neuritis and other neurological diseases, as well as consecutive CSF and serum samples from MS patients included in a clinical trial with acyclovir, were analysed by nested PCR for the presence of DNA from herpes simplex virus 1 and 2, Epstein-Barr virus, varicella zoster virus, cytomegalovirus, human herpesvirus 6 and 7. No virus DNA was found in any CSF (n = 115) or serum (n = 116) sample. These findings argue against a continuous disseminated herpesvirus infection in MS, but do not rule out a lesion-associated, low-grade herpesvirus infection within the MS brain.
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- C Martin
- Department of Neurology, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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d'Arminio Monforte A, Mainini F, Testa L, Vago L, Balotta L, Nebuloni M, Antinori S, Bini T, Moroni M. Predictors of cytomegalovirus disease, natural history and autopsy findings in a cohort of patients with AIDS. AIDS 1997; 11:517-24. [PMID: 9084800 DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199704000-00016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To identify the predictors of acquiring cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease, and to describe natural history, therapeutic management and autopsy findings in affected patients. DESIGN Observational study of a consecutive cohort of AIDS patient diagnosed and followed in the same institution. METHODS All of the patients with CMV were included. Statistical analyses were performed to establish the risk of acquiring the disease at or after AIDS presentation, survival, and the occurrence and time of relapses in relation to maintenance therapy. The presence of CMV infection at autopsy was also investigated. RESULTS CMV disease was diagnosed in 304 (24.8%) out of 1,227 patients, its incidence increasing according to the year of AIDS diagnosis. Women, homosexual men, patients given zidovudine and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) prophylaxis before AIDS, and severely immunodepressed patients were at higher risk for the disease. CMV disease was an independent factor of worse survival (hazard ratio, 1.7 versus PCP; 95% confidence intervals, 1.28-2.13). Patients untreated during the acute phase had a 4.3 higher risk of dying than those treated. Relapses occurred less frequently and later in patients given continuous maintenance treatment (23 out of 113; 17 months) than in untreated patients (13 out of 16; 3 months) or those given discontinuous therapy (22 out of 40; 7 months), whereas survival was independent from treatment. CMV infection was found in 97 out of 134 patients at autopsy, but was unassociated with relapse. CONCLUSIONS CMV is a severe disease whose frequency is higher in severely immunodepressed patients. Continuous treatment leads to a lower relapse rate even if it does not change survival or eradicate the infection.
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Cinque P, Scarpellini P, Vago L, Linde A, Lazzarin A. Diagnosis of central nervous system complications in HIV-infected patients: cerebrospinal fluid analysis by the polymerase chain reaction. AIDS 1997; 11:1-17. [PMID: 9110070 DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199701000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Portegies P, Enting RH. Neurology. Prions, oestrogens, PCR, and the brain. Lancet 1996; 348 Suppl 2:sII14. [PMID: 8973492 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(96)98024-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- P Portegies
- Department of Neurology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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