First report of severe parainfluenza virus 4B and rhinovirus C coinfection in a liver transplant recipient treated with immunoglobulin

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 611-614

  Sridhar, Siddharth ^a   Luk, Hayes K H ^a   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Coinfection; Immunoglobulin; Parainfluenza; Rhinovirus; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INSULIN; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RAPAMYCIN; RNA; TACROLIMUS;

ADENOVIRIDAE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ENTEROVIRUS C; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA B; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER GRAFT; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MORBIDITY; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORGAN DONOR; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINOVIRUS C; RHINOVIRUS INFECTION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS TYPING; COINFECTION; HUMAN PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 4; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOLOGY; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RHINOVIRUS; RUBULAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY;

AGED; COINFECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 4, HUMAN; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RHINOVIRUS; RUBULAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84922644530     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2014.09.019     Document Type: Article

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