Fatal pneumonia caused by adenovirus type 35
| Autor: | Robert S. Gohd, Kwang Sik Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics business.industry Adenoviridae Infections Pneumonia Viral Rectal temperature medicine.disease Surgery Adenovirus Infections Human Pneumonia Renal transplant Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Recurrent pneumonia Medicine Humans Female Autopsy Adenovirus infection business Grand mal seizure |
| Zdroj: | American journal of diseases of children (1960). 135(5) |
| ISSN: | 0002-922X |
| Popis: | The occasional association of adenoviruses with severe and fatal infections has been reported, 1-12 and most of the infections were related to adenovirus type 3, 7, or 21. Adenovirus type 35 is a recently recognized serotype that was recovered from a patient who had a renal transplant and who died of disseminated adenovirus infection. 13 Recently, we observed a severe adenovirus type 35 infection in a 2-year-old child. As far as we can determine, ours is the first report of a fatal infection caused by adenovirus type 35 in a child. Report of a Case .—A 2-year-old girl was brought to the emergency room of Charity Hospital of New Orleans with a grand mal seizure and a rectal temperature of 39.9 °C. She had been hospitalized five times previously for recurrent pneumonia and had been discharged from the hospital one week before the present admission. Since that time, she had |
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