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Table 2 Cerebrospinal fluid laboratory findings in all punctured patients diagnosed with varicella zoster virus reactivation

From: Varicella zoster virus infections in neurological patients: a clinical study

Parameter

Trigeminal nerve ganglionitis with rash (n = 11)

Dorsal root ganglionitis with rash (n = 16)

Dorsal root ganglionitis with radiculitis (n = 5)

Facial nerve palsy (n = 19)

CNS infection (n = 34)

Pleocytosis (≥5 cells/μL)

2 (18%)

2 (13%)

4 (80%)

12 (63%)

32 (94%)

Lactate (≥3.5 mmol/L)

0

0

0

1 (5%)

3 (9%)

Blood-CSF barrier dysfunction

0

8 (50%)

3 (60%)

8 (42%)

20 (59%)

Intrathecal synthesis of immunoglobulins

0

0

0

4 (21%)

6 (18%)

Isolated IgG

_

_

_

1

_

Isolated IgA

_

_

_

_

_

Isolated IgM

_

_

_

_

_

Combined IgG + IgM

_

_

_

_

_

Combined IgG + IgA

_

_

_

_

1

Combined IgM + IgA

_

_

_

2

1

Combined IgG + IgM + IgA

_

_

_

1

4

CSF oligoclonal bands

1 (9%)

0

1 (20%)

7 (37%)

11 (32%)

PCR/VZV antibody synthesis

0

2 (13%)

3 (60%)

12 (63%)

34 (100%)

PCR positive

_

1

1

3

23

VZV antibody synthesis

_

1

2

9

11