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

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Benjamin, Laura A. ; Lewthwaite, Penny ; Vasanthapuram, Ravi ; Zhao, Guoyan ; Sharp, Colin ; Simmonds, Peter ; Wang, David ; Solomon, Tom
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  Acute Disease Adolescent Antibodies, Viral Child Child, Preschool Dispatch DNA, Viral Encephalitis, Viral High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing Humans Immunoglobulin M Molecular Sequence Data Parvoviridae Infections Parvovirus Phylogeny Polymerase Chain Reaction Sequence Analysis, DNA

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 17(8):1484-1487.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  G116/194/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom ; U54 AI057160/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; Medical Research Council/United Kingdom ; Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom
• Place as Subject:
  India
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  17
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a32a4db9dc333e988021e7c2082798887e597651e06b2a1e43aaa42c283e7f38
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/24224/cdc_24224_DS1.pdf
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