1. Pleurodynia caused by an echovirus 1 brought back from the tropics.
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Leendertse M, van Vugt M, Benschop KS, van Dijk K, Minnaar RP, van Eijk HW, Hodiamont CJ, and Wolthers KC
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- Adult, Asia, Southeastern, Cluster Analysis, Echovirus Infections pathology, Enterovirus B, Human genetics, Female, Humans, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Pleurodynia, Epidemic pathology, RNA, Viral chemistry, RNA, Viral genetics, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Sequence Homology, Travel, Echovirus Infections diagnosis, Echovirus Infections virology, Enterovirus B, Human isolation & purification, Pleurodynia, Epidemic diagnosis, Pleurodynia, Epidemic virology
- Abstract
A 31 year-old woman presented with acute pain on the left side of the thorax and abdomen, radiating to the back together with fever, after she had returned from traveling in Southeast Asia. Except for pleural friction rub auscultated on the left hemithorax, no physical abnormalities were detected. We diagnosed a classical course of Bornholm disease, caused by an echovirus type 1. While described as a classical pathogen causing Bornholm disease, this genotype has not been reported frequently in Surveillance data in the Western World., (Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2013
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