Anti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis was first reported to develop in female young adults with ovarian teratoma. However, another study with a larger cohort reported that more than one-third of all patients with anti-NMDAR ...
May 13, 2021
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An infant's odd case of rare encephalitis not typically found in children led researchers to discover never before seen genetic mutations and a more accurate technique to examine the IRAK4 gene responsible for innate immunity.
Dec 21, 2020
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Anti-NMDAR encephalitis is an autoimmune brain illness that is often mistaken as a psychiatric disorder since it causes psychoses and other behavior alterations. Despite having these similarities, the illness does not respond ...
Oct 29, 2020
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A new study has detailed the damaging role played by the immune system in a severe brain condition most commonly caused by the cold sore virus.
Sep 15, 2020
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Not all bloodsuckers are created equal in parents' eyes.
Jun 15, 2020
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This year, the germs roared back.
Dec 27, 2019
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Although eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a mosquito-borne illness, has existed for centuries, 2019 has been a particularly deadly year for the disease in the United States. As of November 12, 36 confirmed cases of EEE ...
Nov 21, 2019
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A protein that is critical in controlling replication of West Nile and Zika viruses—and could be important for developing therapies to prevent and treat those viruses—has been identified by a Georgia State University ...
Nov 6, 2019
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Low-income urban neighborhoods not only have more mosquitoes, but they are larger-bodied, indicating that they could be more efficient at transmitting diseases. So reports a Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies-led study, ...
Oct 16, 2019
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Michigan will conduct aerial spraying for the first time since 1980 to combat a rare mosquito-borne virus that has killed three people and been recorded across the southern half of the state.
Sep 27, 2019
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