Insights into the biomarkers of viral encephalitis from clinical patients

Pathog Dis. 2021 Jan 6;79(1):ftaa073. doi: 10.1093/femspd/ftaa073.

Abstract

Background: biomarkers can be helpful in identifying patients who may profit by explicit treatments or evaluating the reaction to the treatment of specific disease. Finding unique biomarkers in the process of disease could help clinicians in identifying serious disease in the early stage, so as to improve prognosis.

Objective: these investigations, nonetheless, have made constrained progress. Numerous infections are known to cause intense viral encephalitis (VE) in people which can cause a variable level of meningeal just as parenchymal aggravation. Initial clinical manifestations in most encephalitis are nonspecific, resembling a viral-like illness. However, with disease progression, symptoms can become quite severe and fatal, including prominent cranial hypertension, cognitive problems, cerebral hernia and respiratory failure. Forwards: the clinical and research center discoveries in huge numbers of those viral issues are to a great extent comparable and in this way increasingly explicit biomarkers for indicative and prognostic intentions are justified. These biomarkers are progressively significant in the acknowledgment and treatment of the viral central nervous system (CNS) issue.

Conclusion: Clinical manifestations have been the indicative approaches for analysis of viral encephalitis. Lots of studies have been endeavored to distinguish progressively objective laboratory-based quantitative CSF biomarkers for VE.

Keywords: biomarkers; cerebrospinal fluid; evaluation; viral encephalitis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Biomarkers
  • Coronaviridae Infections / virology
  • Encephalitis, Japanese / virology
  • Encephalitis, Viral / drug therapy*
  • Encephalitis, Viral / metabolism*
  • Encephalitis, Viral / virology*
  • HIV Infections / virology
  • Herpes Simplex / virology
  • Humans
  • Influenza, Human / virology
  • Prognosis
  • Vaccines / therapeutic use*
  • West Nile Fever / virology
  • Zika Virus Infection / virology

Substances

  • Antiviral Agents
  • Biomarkers
  • Vaccines