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Fatal West Nile Virus Encephalitis in a Heart Transplant Recipient
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 53:2749-2752
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- American Society for Microbiology, 2015.
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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.
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1098660X and 00951137
- Volume :
- 53
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4e44964bab23113f054c43aabc9b8f21
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00834-15