Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: promising results with intraventricular interferon alpha 2b therapy and intraventricular ribavarin therapy
Journal Title: Pediatric Review: International Journal of Pediatric Research - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 6
Abstract
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a devastating ‘slow virus’ disease of childhood and adolescence caused due to persistence of defective measles virus (MV) within the neurons and glial cells. Three drugs, i.e., inosiplex, ribavirin and interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) were reported to be effective though none of them have been proven to be curative.
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Roosy Aulakh
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- DOI 10.17511/ijpr.2018.6.01
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