Progress in etiological diagnosis of viral meningitis

Hongyan Xu; Peng Chen; Shihan Guo; Xiaokai Shen; Yun Lu

doi:10.3389/fneur.2023.1193834

Progress in etiological diagnosis of viral meningitis

Front Neurol. 2023 Jul 31:14:1193834. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1193834. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Hongyan Xu^{1

2}, Peng Chen³, Shihan Guo¹, Xiaokai Shen⁴, Yun Lu¹

Affiliations

¹ Emergency Department, Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China.
² Department of General Practice, The 900th Hospital of Joint Logistic Support Force, PLA, Fuzong Clinical College of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
³ Department of Dermatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.

Abstract

In recent years, with the rapid development of molecular biology techniques such as polymerase chain reaction and molecular biochip, the etiological diagnosis of viral encephalitis has a very big step forward. At present, the etiological examination of viral meningitis mainly includes virus isolation, serological detection and molecular biological nucleic acid detection. This article reviews the progress in etiological diagnosis of viral meningitis.

Keywords: NGS; PCR; diagnosis; etiology; viral meningitis.

Publication types

Review