Relationship between Infantal Epilepsy and Human Cytomegalovirus Infection
- VernacularTitle:婴儿癫癎与人巨细胞病毒感染的关系
- Author:
hua, CHENG
;
bao-qiang, YUAN
;
ming, LU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
human cytomegalovirus;
epilepsy;
infant;
fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction
- From:Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics
2006;0(22):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the relationship of human cytomegalovirus(HCMV) infection and infantal epilepsy.Methods Fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction was employed to detect the urine HCMV-DNA in 20 healthy children and 52 infants with epilepsy,and the changes in head CT scanning and brainstem auditory evoked potential were determined in HCMV positive and negative epilepsy infants.Results Positive HCMV-DNA was found in 31(59.62%)infants with epilepsy and 6(30%)healthy infants,there was significant difference between two groups(P
