Epidemic Myalgia Associated with Human Parechovirus Type 3 Infection

A 42-year-old man was hospitalized due to a fever, orchiodynia, and extremely severe myalgia predominantly in the extremities, which made it difficult for him to stand or walk. He had a history of contact with his son who had acute upper respiratory infection. Based on the characteristic clinical sy...

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Autores principales: Miyazaki, Moemi, Hara, Kenta, Takayoshi, Tomofumi, Kawase, Tetsuya, Nakagawa, Yasushi, Arai, Takashi, Sugimoto, Takeshi, Nishiyama, Katsuhito, Gonzalez, Gabriel, Hanaoka, Nozomu, Fujimoto, Tsuguto, Yasutomo, Yoshiro, Yokono, Koichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7086318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31666464
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.3326-19
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Sumario:A 42-year-old man was hospitalized due to a fever, orchiodynia, and extremely severe myalgia predominantly in the extremities, which made it difficult for him to stand or walk. He had a history of contact with his son who had acute upper respiratory infection. Based on the characteristic clinical symptoms and detection of the partial sequence of human parechovirus type 3 (HPeV3) in throat swabs as well as stool and serum samples, he was diagnosed with epidemic myalgia associated with HPeV3 infection. Because HPeV3 infection is widespread among children in Japan, HPeV3-associated myalgia should be considered when adult patients manifest such distinguishing clinical characteristics.

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