Human Herpesviruses-6 and -7 Encephalopathy in UK

Abstract

In a three year prospective study in Britain and Ireland, blood samples of 205 children (2-35 months of age) hospitalized with fever and convulsions and/or suspected encephalitis were tested for primary HHV-6 and -7 infections and reported from Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK.

Keywords

• encephalopathy
• hhv-7
• complex febrile seizures