Human Parvovirus 4 as Potential Cause of Encephalitis in Children, India

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  • Laura A. Benjamin
  • Penny Lewthwaite
  • Ravi Vasanthapuram
  • Guoyan Zhao
  • Colin Sharp
  • Peter Simmonds
  • David Wang
  • Tom Solomon
چکیده

To investigate whether uncharacterized infectious agents were associated with neurologic disease, we analyzed cerebrospinal fluid specimens from 12 children with acute central nervous system infection. A high-throughput pyrosequencing screen detected human parvovirus 4 DNA in cerebrospinal fluid of 2 children with encephalitis of unknown etiology.

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دوره 17  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011