✦ LIBER ✦
Prolonged echo viral meningitis in a cancer patient with normal serum immunoglobulins
✍ Scribed by Watanabe, Masayo ;Cho, Cheng T. ;Trueworthy, Robert C. ;Saving, Kay L.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 283 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-1532
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✦ Synopsis
This is a report of prolonged meningitis caused by echovirus type 20 in a patient with rhabdomyosarcoma. It represents one of the few documented cases of delayed clearance of echovirus in the cerebrospinal fluid in a patient with normal serum immunoglobulins. The case illustrates the prolonged clinical course of echoviral meningitis in a patient receiving cytotoxic drug therapy, and it suggests that factorb) other than humoral antibodies may be involved in the elimination of echovirus from the central nervous system.