A Case of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in an HIV-Positive Adult

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is commonly known to cause an influenza-like illness. However, it can also cause more severe disease in young children and older adults comprising of organ transplant patients with immunocompromised status. Till date, only four cases of RSV infections have been repo...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Aakriti, Mody, Purav, Gupta, Shefali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23008789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/267028
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description Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is commonly known to cause an influenza-like illness. However, it can also cause more severe disease in young children and older adults comprising of organ transplant patients with immunocompromised status. Till date, only four cases of RSV infections have been reported in HIV-positive adults. We describe here a case of HIV-positive female with relatively preserved immune function who presented with RSV infection requiring ventilation and showed improvement after prompt treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin.
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spelling pubmed-34473252012-09-24 A Case of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in an HIV-Positive Adult Gupta, Aakriti Mody, Purav Gupta, Shefali Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is commonly known to cause an influenza-like illness. However, it can also cause more severe disease in young children and older adults comprising of organ transplant patients with immunocompromised status. Till date, only four cases of RSV infections have been reported in HIV-positive adults. We describe here a case of HIV-positive female with relatively preserved immune function who presented with RSV infection requiring ventilation and showed improvement after prompt treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3447325/ /pubmed/23008789 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/267028 Text en Copyright © 2012 Aakriti Gupta et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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