Eurosurveillance · 2009 · 268 citations · 5 references
Life SciencesInfectious DiseasesMicrobiologyMedical MicrobiologyMolecular VirologyVirologyCentral Nervous System InfectionsEmerging Viral DiseasesEncephalitisNeuropathology Of InfectionViral InfectionsViral PathologyHuman Neuroinvasive DiseaseNeurologic InfectionsNeurological Viral InfectionsUsutu Virus DiseaseUsutu Virus InfectionViral Genome SequencingViral Genome StructureViral Neurologic Disease
We report the first worldwide case of Usutu virus (USUV) neuroinvasive infection in a patient with diffuse large B cell lymphoma who presented with fever and neurological symptoms and was diagnosed with meningoencephalitits. The cerebrospinal fluid was positive for USUV, and USUV was also demonstrated in serum and plasma samples by RT-PCR and sequencing. Partial sequences of the premembrane and NS5 regions of the viral genome were similar to the USUV Vienna and Budapest isolates.
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