An Intensive Care Unit Outbreak of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome due to Human Metapneumo Virus Infection

Human metapneumo virus is an emerging cause of upper and lower respiratory tract illness with increasing reports of a varied spectrum of disease over all age groups. We report an outbreak of 6 cases of human metapneumo virus infection in the intensive care unit of a metropolitan tertiary care center...

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Autores principales: Sinha, Ankur, Ponnusamy, Vignesh, Gupta, Sushilkumar S., Raheja, Hitesh, Patti, Ravikaran, Soni, Parita, Malhan, Namrita, Lin, Yu Shia, Kupfer, Yizhak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6611009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31271048
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709619860549
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Sumario:Human metapneumo virus is an emerging cause of upper and lower respiratory tract illness with increasing reports of a varied spectrum of disease over all age groups. We report an outbreak of 6 cases of human metapneumo virus infection in the intensive care unit of a metropolitan tertiary care center over 6 weeks, leading to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. We report the subsequent favorable outcomes due to the institution of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

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