Lymphocytic Herpesviruses and Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Central Nervous System Infection Clinical Trial

Official title: Molecular Methods in the Etiological Diagnostics of Acute Central Nervous System Infections: Lymphocytic Herpesviruses and PCR

Status Not yet recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Enterovirus and herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2 are the main causative agents of central nervous system infections.

Instead, the role of lymphocytic herpesviruses in the etiology of central nervous system (CNS) infections is not clear, even if there is the positive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-result for the virus.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the presence of DNA from lymphocytic herpesviruses in the CSF obtained from the immunocompetent patients with CSF pleocytosis and from the patients with normal CSF leukocyte count.

Clinical Trial Description

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Study Design

Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Central Nervous System Infection
• Central Nervous System Infections

• NCT number: NCT01438879
• Study type: Observational
• Source: PaijatHame Central Hospital
• Contact: Laura MA Kupila
• Phone: +358447195940
• Email: laura.kupila@phsotey.fi
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2011
• Completion date: December 2013