The Importance of Monitoring for Infectious Encephalitis

Herpes simplex is going to be the most common viral encephalitic process. This does have a pretty classic tropism for the limbic system and this will be picked up on the MRI imaging. The treatment that we do empirically and then also once confirmed isgoing to be acyclovir generally 10 makes per cake, Q8 hours for 14 days in immunocompetent patients or 21 days in somebody who's immunocompromised.