Extensive Recruitment of Plasma Blasts to the Cerebrospinal Fluid in Toscana Virus Encephalitis.

ABSTRACT: An unexpectedly extensive recruitment of B cells and plasma blasts to the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in a patient with Toscana virus (TOSV) encephalitis is described. Acute infection by TOSV was demonstrated by serological methods and by detection of TOSV-specific nucleic acid in the CSF by real-time polymerase chain reaction and sequencing.

SUBMITTER: Schirmer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4569839 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature