Powassan Virus Infection Likely Acquired Through Blood Transfusion Presenting as Encephalitis in a Kidney Transplant Recipient

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• Alternative Title:
  Clin Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Taylor, Lindsay ; Condon, Taryn ; Destrampe, Eric M. ; Brown, Jennifer A. ; McGavic, Jeanette ; Gould, Carolyn V. ; Chambers, Trudy V. ; Kosoy, Olga I. ; Burkhalter, Kristen L. ; Annambhotla, Pallavi ; Basavaraju, Sridhar V. ; Groves, Jamel ; Osborn, Rebecca A. ; Weiss, John ; Stramer, Susan L. ; Misch, Elizabeth A.
• Description:
  A kidney transplant patient without known tick exposure developed encephalitis 3 weeks after transplantation. During the transplant hospitalization, the patient had received a blood transfusion from an asymptomatic donor later discovered to have been infected with Powassan virus. Here, we describe a probable instance of transfusion-transmitted Powassan virus infection.
• Subjects:
  Animals Article Blood Transfusion Encephalitis Encephalitis, Tick-Borne Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne Humans Kidney Transplantation Powassan Virus Renal Transplant Virus Diseases

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• Source:
  Clin Infect Dis. 72(6):1051-1054
• Pubmed ID:
  32539111
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9632256
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  72
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b4a05b1aa5d42b2786657615357674c537fd12a8af2be5d97079e30f5d8fc9bc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/122055/cdc_122055_DS1.pdf
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