Human Parvovirus 4 as Potential Cause of Encephalitis in Children, India

To investigate whether uncharacterized infectious agents were associated with neurologic disease, we analyzed cerebrospinal fluid specimens from 12 children with acute central nervous system infection. A high-throughput pyrosequencing screen detected human parvovirus 4 DNA in cerebrospinal fluid of...

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Autores principales: Benjamin, Laura A., Lewthwaite, Penny, Vasanthapuram, Ravi, Zhao, Guoyan, Sharp, Colin, Simmonds, Peter, Wang, David, Solomon, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3381555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21801629
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1708.110165
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Sumario:To investigate whether uncharacterized infectious agents were associated with neurologic disease, we analyzed cerebrospinal fluid specimens from 12 children with acute central nervous system infection. A high-throughput pyrosequencing screen detected human parvovirus 4 DNA in cerebrospinal fluid of 2 children with encephalitis of unknown etiology.

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