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Table 3 Results of testing for HSV

From: Travel-associated neurological disease terminated in a postmortem diagnosed atypical HSV-1 encephalitis after high-dose steroid therapy – a case report

DOS

Specimen

HSV Analyte

Value

2

CSF

DNA

negative

10

CSF, serum

DNA

negative

10

CSF, serum

AI

1.4

10

serum

IgG

32 AE/ml

21

CSF

DNA

1.4 Mio Geq/ml

21

serum

DNA

1000 Geq/ml

21

brain tissue

DNA

positive

21

CSF, serum

AI

0.5

21

serum

IgG

27 AE/ml

  1. Retrospective analysis of CSF and serum samples provided HSV DNA positive PCR results only for the shorty before death collected specimens (technical limit of detection (LOD) = 700 Geq/ml, at 95% hit rate). AI = serum CSF antibody specificity index (normal range value 0.5–1.5)