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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Tanaka, Hiroshi ; Nishimura, Tetsuo ; Hakui, Mikiko ; Sugimoto, Hisashi ; Tanaka-Taya, Keiko ; ... More +
Tanaka, Hiroshi ; Nishimura, Tetsuo ; Hakui, Mikiko ; Sugimoto, Hisashi ; Tanaka-Taya, Keiko ; Yamanishi, Koichi Less -
Description:
Virus-associated hemophagocytic syndrome is a fulminant disorder associated with systemic viral infection and characterized pathologically by multiple-organ infiltration of hemophagocytic histiocytes into the lymphoreticular tissues. This is the first report of a previously healthy adult in whom Human herpesvirus 6 reactivation induced this syndrome with severe hemodynamic and respiratory distress.
Subject:
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Adult
Antibodies, Viral
Dispatch
Erythrocytes
G-CSF
Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor
Herpesvirus 6, Human
Histiocytes
Human Herpesvirus 6
Humans
Male
Pancytopenia
Phagocytosis
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult
Roseolovirus Infections
Syndrome
Virus-associated Hemophagocytic Syndrome

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 8(1):87-88.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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