Diagnosis of Neuroinvasive Astrovirus Infection in an Immunocompromised Adult With Encephalitis by Unbiased Next-Generation Sequencing

Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (NGS) was used to diagnose an unusual and fatal case of progressive encephalitis in an immunocompromised adult presenting at disease onset as bilateral hearing loss. The sequencing and confirmatory studies revealed neuroinvasive infection of the brain by an ast...

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Autores principales: Naccache, Samia N., Peggs, Karl S., Mattes, Frank M., Phadke, Rahul, Garson, Jeremy A., Grant, Paul, Samayoa, Erik, Federman, Scot, Miller, Steve, Lunn, Michael P., Gant, Vanya, Chiu, Charles Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25572898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu912

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25572898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu912

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