Persistent Human Cosavirus Infection in Lung Transplant Recipient, Italy

Abstract

Human cosavirus is a novel picornavirus recently identified in feces from children in southern Asia. We report infection with human cosavirus in a patient in the Mediterranean area. The patient was an adult double lung transplant recipient who had chronic diarrhea associated with persistent infection with human cosavirus.

Keywords

• human cosavirus
• epidemiology
• persistent infection
• lung transplant
• transplant recipient
• viruses