Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Severe bornavirus-encephalitis presenting as Guillain–Barré-syndrome

  • Correspondence
  • Published:
Acta Neuropathologica Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1

References

  1. Herden C, Briese T, Lipkin WI, Richt JA (2013) Bornaviridae. In: Fields BN, Knipe DM, Howley PM (eds) Fields virology, 6th edn. Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, pp 1124–1148

    Google Scholar 

  2. Hoffmann B, Tappe D, Hoper D, Herden C, Boldt A, Mawrin C et al (2015) A variegated squirrel bornavirus associated with fatal human encephalitis. N Engl J Med 373:154–162. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1415627

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Korn K, Coras R, Bobinger T, Herzog SM, Lucking H, Stohr R et al (2018) Fatal encephalitis associated with borna disease virus 1. N Engl J Med 379:1375–1377. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc1800724

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Ludlow M, Kortekaas J, Herden C, Hoffmann B, Tappe D, Trebst C et al (2016) Neurotropic virus infections as the cause of immediate and delayed neuropathology. Acta Neuropathol 131:159–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-015-1511-3

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Matsumoto Y, Hayashi Y, Omori H, Honda T, Daito T, Horie M et al (2012) Bornavirus closely associates and segregates with host chromosomes to ensure persistent intranuclear infection. Cell Host Microbe 11:492–503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2012.04.009

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Schlottau K, Forth L, Angstwurm K, Hoper D, Zecher D, Liesche F et al (2018) Fatal encephalitic borna disease virus 1 in solid-organ transplant recipients. N Engl J Med 379:1377–1379. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc1803115

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

We like to thank Dr. Sybille M. Herzog, Gießen, Germany, for providing the Bo18 antibody and Doris Jungnickl, Brigitte Scholz, and Andrea Hilpert for excellent technical assistance. Research was done with internal funds, and in part by programme overhead financing related to Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Grant EN423/5-1 to Dr. Ensser.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Virology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Schlossgarten 4, 91054, Erlangen, Germany

    Klaus Korn & Armin Ensser

  2. Department of Neuropathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany

    Roland Coras

  3. Department of Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany

    Hagen B. Huttner

  4. Institute of Anatomy, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany

    Stefanie Kuerten

Authors
  1. Roland Coras
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Klaus Korn
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Stefanie Kuerten
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Hagen B. Huttner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Armin Ensser
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Armin Ensser.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Electronic supplementary material

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Coras, R., Korn, K., Kuerten, S. et al. Severe bornavirus-encephalitis presenting as Guillain–Barré-syndrome. Acta Neuropathol 137, 1017–1019 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-019-02005-z

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-019-02005-z

Search

Navigation