Persistent viremia and urine shedding of tick-borne encephalitis virus in an infected immunosuppressed patient from a new epidemic cluster in North-Eastern Italy

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 69, Issue , 2015, Pages 48-51

  Caracciolo, Ilaria ^a   Bassetti, Matteo ^b   Paladini, Giorgio ^c   Luzzati, Roberto ^c   Santon, Daniela ^a   Merelli, Maria ^b   De Sabbata, Giovanni ^c   Carletti, Tea ^d   Marcello, Alessandro ^e   D'Agaro, Pierlanfranco ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b S Maria Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Friuli Venezia Giulia region; Immuno compromized host; Italy; Persistent infection; Real time PCR; Sequencing; TBEV; Tick borne encephalitis; Trieste; Virus isolation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ITALY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; URINALYSIS; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS SHEDDING; BLOOD; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; URINE; VIROLOGY;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; ITALY; MALE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINE; VIREMIA; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 84937877898     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.05.019     Document Type: Article

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