However, a very small fraction of them may develop Kawasaki disease, or maybe a variant of it, characterized by a powerful immune response that causes a cytokine storm, which some have called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Kawasaki disease can be caused by various pathogens, ...
Lesions of the optic disc or axial lesions of the optic nerve may involve sufficient papillomacular axons to cause a central or centrocecal scotomas [23]. Optic neuritis is one of the possible causes of such scotomas in children. Loss of VF is described in the acute stage of the disease, ...
In this review, we discuss what is known about the alphavirus exit pathway during a cellular infection. We describe the viral protein interactions that are critical for virus assembly/budding and the host factors that are involved, and we highlight the recent discovery of cell-to-cell ...