Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2005)

Human Metapneumovirus RNA in Encephalitis Patient

  • Oliver Schildgen,
  • Thomas Glatzel,
  • Tilman Geikowski,
  • Bärbel Scheibner,
  • Arne Simon,
  • Lutz Bindl,
  • Mark Born,
  • Sergei Viazov,
  • Anja Wilkesmann,
  • Gisela Knöpfle,
  • Michael Roggendorf,
  • Bertfried Matz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1103.040676
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3
pp. 467 – 470

Abstract

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We describe a fatal case of encephalitis that might be correlated with primary human metapneumovirus (HMPV) encephalitis. Postmortem HMPV RNA was detected in brain and lung tissue samples from the patient. Furthermore, HMPV RNA was found in culture fluids from cells coincubated with lung tissue.

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