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Human herpesvirus 7 encephalitis in an immunocompetent adult complicated by catastrophic multi-organ injury and long-term refractory epilepsy: a unique case requiring VA-ECMO rescue and systematic literature review of adult cases

2026-08-06

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Background:</bold> <italic>Human herpesvirus</italic> 7 ( <italic>HHV</italic> -7) is a ubiquitous latent virus predominantly causing benign infantile exanthema subitum, while severe <italic>HHV</italic> -7 encephalitis in immunocompetent adults is extremely rare, with fewer than 20 global case reports to date. To date, fewer than 20 immunocompetent adult <italic>HHV</ita...

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Literature Corpus work: f4371ce2-4ae6-57bb-9e0f-a2298379319b
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10482403/v1

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