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Article abstract-We made a pathologic diagnosis of chronic encephalitis on surgical resections or autopsy material in 10 patients with intractable seizures and studied the specimens by immunohistochemistry for herpes simplex virus (HSV) 1 and 2 and cytomegalovirus (CMV) as well as by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for viral DNA sequences (HSV1, HSV2, and CMV). We also assessed eight patients (nonepileptic) with pathologically documented or clinically suspected encephalitis and five resections from epileptics without encephalitis. Immunohistochemistry for viral antigens was negative in all cases. Using PCR assay, CMV was present in six and HSV1 in two of 10 epilepsy patients with chronic encephalitis. We demonstrated CMV by in situ hybridization in two of the six patients positive for CMV by PCR. We found no viral sequences by PCR in five epileptics without encephalitis. Of the eight patients (nonepileptic) with clinically suspected or pathologically confirmed encephalitis, two cases showed CMV sequences by PCR. These observations suggest that PCR allows detection of viral sequences in some cases of chronic encephalitis associated with epilepsy that may be missed by in situ hybridization.
NEUROLOGY 1995;45: 108-117
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