Sentence examples for severity of encephalitis from inspiring English sources

In the context of HAND, minocycline was demonstrated to reduce the incidence and severity of encephalitis in simian immuno-deficiency virus-infected macaques and a Phase II clinical trial is underway at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US, as well as a clinical trial in Uganda to determine whether it reduces cognitive deficits in HIV-infected individuals.

The clinical severity of WNV encephalitis ranges from mild disorientation to coma and death (28, 29).

The distribution and severity of herpesvirus encephalitis often differ between natural and accidental hosts in terms of enhanced neurovirulence.

These chemokines may contribute to the influx of neutrophils and lymphocytes as observed in the brain (Fig 2) and the severity of the encephalitis during VEEV infection.

The present study is to determine the role of polymorphism of TNF-alpha promoter regions at positions -238G/A, -308G/A, -857C/T and -863C/A in the severity of Japanese encephalitis patients.

Further, an elevation in aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (AMT) enzyme levels indicate virus inoculation in patients [ 101]; though, it cannot identify severity of Japanese encephalitis or its outcome.

Declines in the neuronal marker NAA and in NAA/Cr have been found to correlate with disease severity of macaque SIV encephalitis [51] [54].

AF has also been demonstrated to modulate the proliferation of memory/effector T cells, thereby inhibiting the severity of experimental autoimmune encephalitis [ 24, 25], and to inhibit the extent of inflammation in the late phase of a mouse colitis model [ 26].

Therefore, B cells that secrete IL-10 (or B10 cells) have been called regulatory B cells and were first reported in B10.PL mice in which IL-10-producing B cells were found to regulate the severity of experimental auto-immune encephalitis [ 14].

Natural coadaptation of EHV-9 and equids was corroborated by the severity of disease seen in nonequids: fulminant encephalitis with extensive neuronal necrosis in both spontaneous cases and experimental models (2 – 6 ).

The severity of TBE tends to increase as age increases, thereby resulting in a higher proportion of encephalitis cases relative to meningitis cases in older than in younger persons (13 ).