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Powassan Virus Neuropathology and Genomic Diversity in Patients With Fatal Encephalitis

BACKGROUND: Powassan virus (POWV) is an emerging cause of severe encephalitis; very little is known about human pathogenicity due to challenges in diagnosis and viral RNA recovery. We present 3 patients with fatal encephalitis due to POWV lineage II (deer tick virus). METHODS: We obtained 27 unique...

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Autores principales: Normandin, Erica, Solomon, Isaac H, Zamirpour, Siavash, Lemieux, Jacob, Freije, Catherine A, Mukerji, Shibani S, Tomkins-Tinch, Christopher, Park, Daniel, Sabeti, Pardis C, Piantadosi, Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7566439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33094116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa392