A haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)-like picture following breastmilk transmitted cytomegalovirus infection in a preterm infant

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-176

  Knorr, Britta ^a   Kessler, Ulf ^b   Pöschl, Johannes ^a   Fickenscher, Helmut ^a,c   Linderkamp, Otwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Kiel and Lungen Clinic Grosshansdorf   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VIRUS DNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BREAST MILK; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEWBORN INFECTION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREMATURITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEPTICEMIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FOSCARNET; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MILK, HUMAN;

EID: 33847161673     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600786598     Document Type: Article

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