"Encephalitis, Viral" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Inflammation of brain parenchymal tissue as a result of viral infection. Encephalitis may occur as primary or secondary manifestation of TOGAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; and ARENAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS.
| Descriptor ID |
D018792
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C02.182.525 C02.290 C10.228.140.430.520.750 C10.228.228.245.340 C10.228.228.399.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Encephalitis, Viral- Encephalitis, Viral
- Infectious Encephalomyelitis, Viral
- Encephalomyelitis, Viral Infectious
- Viral Infectious Encephalomyelitis
- Encephalomyelitis, Infectious, Viral
- Viral Encephalitis
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Encephalitis, Viral" by people in Profiles.
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Emergence of CD4 independence envelopes and astrocyte infection in R5 simian-human immunodeficiency virus model of encephalitis. J Virol. 2014 Aug; 88(15):8407-20.
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SIV vpx is essential for macrophage infection but not for development of AIDS. PLoS One. 2014; 9(1):e84463.
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Interferon-alpha causes neuronal dysfunction in encephalitis. J Neurosci. 2009 Mar 25; 29(12):3948-55.
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Viral encephalitis: familiar infections and emerging pathogens. Lancet. 2002 Feb 09; 359(9305):507-13.
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Update on viral encephalitis. Curr Opin Neurol. 2001 Jun; 14(3):369-74.