Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2023)

Unknown Circovirus in Immunosuppressed Patient with Hepatitis, France, 2022

  • Christophe Rodriguez,
  • Laure Boizeau,
  • Alexandre Soulier,
  • Melissa N’Debi,
  • Vanessa Demontant,
  • Elisabeth Trawinski,
  • Sarah Seng,
  • Hélène Fontaine,
  • Paul-Louis Woerther,
  • Sarah Marchand,
  • Slim Fourati,
  • Stéphane Chevaliez,
  • Pierre Cappy,
  • Stanislas Pol,
  • Jean-Michel Pawlotsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2905.221485
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 5
pp. 1051 – 1054

Abstract

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Hepatitis of undetermined origin can be caused by a wide variety of pathogens, sometimes emerging pathogens. We report the discovery, by means of routine shotgun metagenomics, of a new virus belonging to the family Circoviridae, genus Circovirus, in a patient in France who had acute hepatitis of unknown origin.

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