Doi: 10.1080/13550280290049723 review central nervous system infections in individuals... Therefore, we review the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, and management of five common central nervous system disorders in individuals with HIV-1 infection: toxoplasma encephalitis, primary central nervous system lymphoma, cryptococcal meningitis, cytomegalovirus encephalitis, and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy....
Foscarnet penetrates the blood-brain barrier: rationale for therapy of cytomegalovirus encephalitis.... In conclusion, we show that foscarnet seems to be the drug of choice for the treatment of cytomegalovirus encephalitis, because it penetrates the blood-brain barrier and is found in the cerebrospinal fluid in virustatic concentrations....
Foscarnet penetrates the blood-brain barrier: rationale for therapy of cytomegalovirus encephalitis... In conclusion, we show that foscarnet seems to be the drug of choice for the treatment of cytomegalovirus encephalitis, because it penetrates the blood-brain barrier and is found in the cerebrospinal fluid in virustatic concentrations
Frequent detection of epstein-barr virus and cytomegalovirus but not jc virus dna in cerebrospinal fluid samples from human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in northern thailand... Despite the low incidence of primary central nervous system lymphoma or cytomegalovirus encephalitis among Thai AIDS patients, Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus infections in the central nervous system are common
