Lum, SH;
Turner, A;
Guiver, M;
Bonney, D;
Martland, T;
Davies, E;
Newbould, M;
... Wynn, R; + view all
(2016)
An emerging opportunistic infection: fatal astrovirus (VA1/HMO-C) encephalitis in a pediatric stem cell transplant recipient.
Transplant Infectious Disease
, 18
(6)
pp. 960-964.
10.1111/tid.12607.
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Abstract
Neuroinvasive astrovirus (VA1-HMO-C) is an emerging life-threatening infection in immunocompromised hosts. We describe an 8-month-old child who died of VA1/HMO-C encephalitis following bone marrow transplantation. The diagnosis was only made post-mortem using RNA deep sequencing of the brain. Repeat analysis of the post-mortem brain tissue using polymerase chain reaction specific primers for VA1/HMO-C was positive. Astrovirus VA1/HMO-C should be included in the evaluation of patients with similar encephalitis.
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