Advancing science
The UCSF Center for Encephalitis & Meningitis is committed to advancing the fields of science and medicine through peer-reviewed publications, editorials and reviews in leading journals.
Highlighted Publications
Seven-year performance of a clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing test for diagnosis of central nervous system infections
Nature Medicine, November 2024. See Article
Transcobalamin receptor antibodies in autoimmune vitamin B12 central deficiency
Science Translational Medicine, June 2024. See Article
Multiomic Analysis of Neuroinflammation and Occult Infection in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
JAMA Neurology, January 2024. See Article
Transmission of yellow fever vaccine virus through blood transfusion and organ transplantation in the USA in 2021: report of an investigation
Lancet Microbe, September 2023. See Article
Detection of High-Risk Paraneoplastic Antibodies against TRIM9 and TRIM67 Proteins
Annals of Neurology, August 2023. See Article
Pathogen and Antibody Identification in Children with Encephalitis in Myanmar
Annals of Neurology, March 2023. See Article
Successful Treatment of Balamuthia mandrillaris Granulomatous Amebic Encephalitis with Nitroxoline
Emerging Infectious Diseases, January 2023. See Article
ZSCAN1 Autoantibodies Are Associated with Pediatric Paraneoplastic ROHHAD
Annals of Neurology, August 2022. See Article
The Current Status of Next-Generation Sequencing for Diagnosis of Central Nervous System Infections
JAMA Neurology, August 2022. See Article
Transfusion-Transmitted Cache Valley Virus Infection in a Kidney Transplant Recipient With Meningoencephalitis
Clinical Infectious Diseases, July 2022. See Article
βIV-Spectrin Autoantibodies in 2 Individuals With Neuropathy of Possible Paraneoplastic Origin
Neurology Neuroimmunology Neuroinflammation, July 2022. See Article
Integrating Central Nervous System Metagenomics and Host Response for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Meningitis and its Mimics
Nature Communications, March 2022. See Article
Anti-SARS-CoV-2 and Autoantibody Profiles in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of 3 Teenaged Patients With COVID-19 and Subacute Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
JAMA Neurology, October 2021. See Article
Detection of Neoplasms by Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing of Cerebrospinal Fluid
JAMA Neurology, September 2021. See Article
Divergent and self-reactive immune responses in the CNS of COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms
Cell Rep Med, May 2021. See Article
NMDA receptors control development of somatosensory callosal axonal projections
eLife, March 2021. See Article
High-resolution epitope mapping of anti-Hu and anti-Yo autoimmunity by programmable phage display
Brain Communications, August 2020. See Article
Central Nervous System Virus Infection in African Children with Cerebral Malaria
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, July 2020. See Article
Anti-gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor type A encephalitis: a review
Current Opinion in Neurology, June 2020. See Article
The Spectrum of Neurologic Disease in the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Pandemic Infection: Neurologists Move to the Frontlines
JAMA Neurology, June 2020. See Article
Genomic and serologic characterization of enterovirus A71 brainstem encephalitis
Neurology Neuroimmunology Neuroinflammation. May 2020. See Article
Intrathecal B-cell activation in LGI1 antibody encephalitis
Neurology Neuroimmunology Neuroinflammation, May 2020. See Article
Exploratory analysis of the potential for advanced diagnostic testing to reduce healthcare expenditures of patients hospitalized with meningitis or encephalitis
PLoS One, January 2020. See Article
Unbiased Metagenomic Sequencing for Pediatric Meningitis in Bangladesh Reveals Neuroinvasive Chikungunya Virus Outbreak and Other Unrealized Pathogens
mBio, December 2019. See Article
Pan-viral serology implicates enteroviruses in acute flaccid myelitis
Nature Medicine, November 2019. See Article
Exploratory proteomic analysis implicates the alternative complement cascade in primary CNS vasculitis
Neurology. 2019. See Article
Kelch-like Protein 11 Antibodies in Seminoma-Associated Paraneoplastic Encephalitis
New England Journal of Medicine, July 2019. See Article
Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Meningitis and Encephalitis
New England Journal of Medicine, June 2019. See Article
Clinicopathology conference: 41-year-old woman with chronic relapsing meningitis
Annals of Neurology, February 2019. See Article
Chronic Meningitis Investigated via Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing
JAMA Neurology, August 2018. See Article
Autoimmune encephalitis after herpes simplex encephalitis: insights into pathogenesis
Lancet Neurology, September 2018. See Article
Infliximab for the treatment of CNS sarcoidosis: A multi-institutional series
Neurology, November 2017. See Article
Diagnosing Balamuthia mandrillaris Encephalitis With Metagenomic Deep Sequencing
Annals of Neurology, November 2015. See Article
Encephalitis of unclear origin diagnosed by brain biopsy: a diagnostic challenge
JAMA Neurology. January 2015. See Article
Episodic bradycardia as neurocardiac prodrome to voltage-gated potassium channel complex/leucine-rich, glioma inactivated 1 antibody encephalitis
JAMA Neurology, October 2014. See Article
More than memory impairment in voltage-gated potassium channel complex encephalopathy
European Journal of Neurology. October 2014. See Article
Effect of rituximab in patients with leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated 1 antibody-associated encephalopathy
JAMA Neurology, July 2014. See Article
Actionable diagnosis of neuroleptospirosis by next-generation sequencing
New England Journal of Medicine, June 2014. See Article
