Astrovirus Encephalitis in Boy with X-linked Agammaglobulinemia

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Quan, Phenix-Lan ; Wagner, Thor A. ; Briese, Thomas ; Torgerson, Troy R. ; Hornig, Mady ; Tashmukhamedova, Alla ; Firth, Cadhla ; Palacios, Gustavo ; Baisre-De-Leon, Ada ; Paddock, Christopher D. ; Hutchison, Stephen K. ; Egholm, Michael ; Zaki, Sherif R. ; Goldman, James E. ; Ochs, Hans D. ; Lipkin, W. Ian
• Description:
  Encephalitis is a major cause of death worldwide. Although >100 pathogens have been identified as causative agents, the pathogen is not determined for up to 75% of cases. This diagnostic failure impedes effective treatment and underscores the need for better tools and new approaches for detecting novel pathogens or determining new manifestations of known pathogens. Although astroviruses are commonly associated with gastroenteritis, they have not been associated with central nervous system disease. Using unbiased pyrosequencing, we detected an astrovirus as the causative agent for encephalitis in a 15-year-old boy with agammaglobulinemia; several laboratories had failed to identify the agent. Our findings expand the spectrum of causative agents associated with encephalitis and highlight unbiased molecular technology as a valuable tool for differential diagnosis of unexplained disease.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Agammaglobulinemia Astroviridae Infections Capsid Proteins Encephalitis, Viral Fatal Outcome Frontal Lobe Genetic Diseases, X-Linked Humans Immunohistochemistry Male Mamastrovirus Phylogeny Research Rna, Viral Sequence Analysis, Rna

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 16(6):918-925.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  AI070411/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; AI57158/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; EY017404-02/EY/NEI NIH HHS/United States ; R24 EY017404/EY/NEI NIH HHS/United States ; U01 AI070411/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; U54 AI057158/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:78ccb5b9eb2afbe06437c4dc5d731cccb790687bc66a754b7ab083a6e52e9121
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/24158/cdc_24158_DS1.pdf
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