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Atypical varicella-zoster virus meningitis in a young immunocompetent adult during enterovirus epidemic season: A case report and literature review

2024-03-21

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) can cause acute brain infection manifesting as meningitis or encephalitis, which more likely occurs in winter and population with immunocompromised conditions<sup>[1]</sup>. During the enterovirus epidemic season, VZV meningitis is easy to be ignored and misdiagnosed, especially when the typical dermatomal rash is absent. Case presentation Here,...

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Literature Corpus work: 249b6663-f389-575e-b80e-0084b4ba8c8d
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4116479/v1

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