Patients with Suspected Herpes Simplex Encephalitis: Rethinking an Initial Negative Polymerase Chain Reaction Result

Authors: Ana A. Weil, Carol Glaser, Zahwa Amad, Bagher Forghani - Clinical Infectious Diseases 2002 cited by 251

A statewide encephalitis diagnostic project of the California State Department of Health Services found that herpes simplex virus 1 DNA may not be detectable by molecular methods early in the clinical course of herpes simplex encephalitis.