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Disease cytomegalovirus infections
Phenotype C0014038|encephalitis
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PubMedID- 22947340 Here, we describe a case of primary cmv infection associated with encephalitis and autoimmune phenomena in a young woman.
PubMedID- 21533215 The pathogenesis of disease (e.g., pneumonitis, retinitis, hepatitis, enterocolitis, and encephalitis) associated with acute hcmv infection in immunocompromised people is most readily attributable to end organ damage either directly caused by cytopathic viral replication or by host immunological responses that target virus-infected cells.
PubMedID- 23505367 The focal encephalitis, characteristic of mcmv infection in mice, has also been noted in autopsy findings from infants with congenital hcmv infections.

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