1. Fatal West Nile Virus Encephalitis in a Heart Transplant Recipient
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Kathleen Gutierrez, Benjamin A. Pinsky, Adam J. Gomez, Megumi Itoh, Niaz Banaei, Seth A. Hollander, Jesse J. Waggoner, and Indre Budvytiene
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Male ,Microbiology (medical) ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Case Reports ,Heart transplant recipient ,Biology ,Immunocompromised Host ,Young Adult ,Fatal Outcome ,Cerebrospinal fluid ,Central Nervous System Fungal Infections ,medicine ,Humans ,Cerebrospinal Fluid ,Heart transplantation ,Microscopy ,Coinfection ,Dilated cardiomyopathy ,medicine.disease ,Budding yeast ,Transplant Recipients ,West Nile virus encephalitis ,Saccharomycetales ,Heart Transplantation ,West Nile virus ,West Nile Fever ,Encephalitis - Abstract
The diagnosis of encephalitis is particularly challenging in immunocompromised patients. We report here a case of fatal West Nile virus encephalitis confounded by the presence of budding yeast in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a patient who had undergone heart transplantation for dilated cardiomyopathy 11 months prior to presentation of neurologic symptoms.
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- 2015
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