Human Herpesvirus-6 in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Abstract

Brain samples obtained from surgical resections in 8 patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) and 7 patients with neocortical epilepsy (NE) were quantitatively analyzed for HHV-6 in a study at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD.

Keywords

• mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
• hippocampal
• neocortical epilepsy