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Mendelian predisposition to herpes simplex encephalitis.
Handbook of clinical neurology - 1 Jan 2013
Zhang Shen-Ying, Abel Laurent, Casanova Jean-Laurent
Abstract excerpt
Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is the most common sporadic viral encephalitis in the Western world. The pathogenesis of HSE, which affects a small minority of HSV-1-infected individuals, has long remained elusive. Mendelian defects in the TLR3-interferon (IFN) and IFN-responsive pathways were recently shown to predispose to HSE, at least in some children. Autosomal recessive STAT-1 deficiency and X-linked NEMO...
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