In the early 2000s, when Dr. Alexandra Cvijanovich was completing her medical training in Utah, her team cared for a 13-year-old boy with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a degenerative ...

Although an uncommon disease, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis has excited considerable interest for a number of years. Initially, the controversy was nosologic, but agreement now prevails that ...

Three of them are infants too young to vaccinate. Two of them contract subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) a brutal, slow complication of measles that results in deterioration and death.

Measles is commonly thought to be a one-time deal: Get it once, survive, and you’re immune for life. But like a Trojan horse, the virus can find a way to hide from a baby’s undeveloped immune ...

This condition is known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, which occurs when the measles virus remains in the brain long ...

The victims all had a condition called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis or SSPE. It’s caused when the measles virus stays in the brain, usually for years, after a young child is infected and ...

DURING the past 2 yr, reports from several laboratories 1–3 have associated subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) with measles on the basis of three observations in patients with this ...

Chen TT, Watanabe I, Zeman W, et al: Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: propagation of measles virus from brain biopsy in tissue culture. Science 163:1193–1194, 1969 Crossref ...

A very rare but long-term condition that can result from the measles is subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. The fatal disease, which attacks the central nervous system, typically develops seven ...

VIRAL aetiology of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) has been suggested recently and the presence of high titres of measles haemagglutination-inhibiting (HI) antibodies in sera of SSPE ...

This year, 277 cases have been reported in the United States, with more than 114 — or 41 percent — involving ... such as immune amnesia, or subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a rare but ...