Consensus treatment for herpetic meningoencephalitis is intravenous aciclovir but no guidelines are available for alternative treatment in case of renal failure induced by aciclovir. We report to the best of our knowledge, the first case of herpetic meningoencephalitis treated with success by ganciclovir.
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