Found a new virus responsible for severe brain damage

New virus responsible for severe brain damage , scientists have found in Vietnam .
According to them, the new virus is to blame for the emergence of new infections and zoonoses.
The virus has been identified in patients with acute brain infection .
It was isolated in 28 of 644 patients with infection of the brain. The results showed that the virus was not detected in patients with brain diseases that are non-infectious nature.
Infectious diseases of the brain and central nervous system , often fatal. Even in case of recovery patients remain profound disabilities.
Infectious diseases of the brain is caused by a number of bacterial, parasitic , fungal and viral agents . Most clinical practice are not able , however, to identify the pathogen , although a full range of current diagnostic methods . The lack of reliable data on the etiology of cerebral infections greatly complicates the organization and carrying out of preventive and therapeutic measures to combat these dangerous infectious diseases.
Scientists at the Vietnam Department have attempted to tests given to new virus working name CyCV-VN. The virus was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with an infectious lesion with an unknown etiology .
Using the latest technology , the group of scientists identified a completely new virus , confirming that it belongs to the type previously unknown viruses.
The virus was not detected in blood samples of patients , but is present in 8 out of a total of 188 samples from the faeces of healthy infants studied . The virus is also defined in more than half of the fecal samples of pigs and chickens.
The evidence to support that this is another example of zoonotic infections. The discovery of the virus in stool samples of animals and humans clearly shows that the mode of transmission of the virus from animals to humans is primarily fecal- oral route.
Identification of the virus in the cerebrospinal fluid is an extraordinary phenomenon, but can not completely exclude the possibility of non- pathogenic properties.
" To establish the role of the virus in the development of severe brain infection further studies are needed ," the researchers say .
Currently , they conduct more research on the virus to a specialized laboratory using serological diagnostic tests to detect serum antibodies against the virus.