Rashless varicella-zoster virus encephalitis in two patients: diagnostic challenges and delayed neurological complications, a case report

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Background</bold> Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) can cause a wide spectrum of central nervous system infections, but early diagnosis is challenging in the absence of a typical rash. Rashless VZV encephalitis often presents with non-specific clinical and neuroimaging findings and may mimic autoimmune encephalitis or primary central nervous system lymphoma. We report two patients w...

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• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• DNA Polymerase III
• Herpesvirus 3, Human
• Immunity, Cellular
• Immunocompromised Host
• Nervous System
• Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases
• Virus Latency

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Literature Corpus work

315646f1-88c1-5cc4-b73e-0626880e6413

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-9129994/v1