Abstract
Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is one of the most severe viral infections affecting the temporal lobes of the brain. Despite the improvements in diagnosis and antiviral drug treatment, one third of all patients fail to respond to therapy or subsequently suffer neurological relapse and develop long term neurological damage [1, 2]. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is among the appropriate noninvasive tools for early diagnosis of viral central nervous system (CNS) infections. In this chapter we introduce a mouse model for HSE and describe a MRI protocol to characterize the pathogenesis of HSE over time.
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This project was supported by the Innovative Medical Research (IMF) Münster, Germany (HÖ 211112).
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Hafezi, W., Hoerr, V. (2013). In Vivo Visualization of Encephalitic Lesions in Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) Infected Mice by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). In: Bailer, S., Lieber, D. (eds) Virus-Host Interactions. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1064. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-601-6_18
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