Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2018)

Heartland Virus and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Immunocompromised Patient, Missouri, USA

  • Abigail L. Carlson,
  • Daniel M. Pastula,
  • Amy J. Lambert,
  • J. Erin Staples,
  • Atis Muehlenbachs,
  • George Turabelidze,
  • Charles S. Eby,
  • Jesse Keller,
  • Brian Hess,
  • Richard S. Buller,
  • Gregory A. Storch,
  • Kathleen Byrnes,
  • Louis Dehner,
  • Nigar Kirmani,
  • F. Matthew Kuhlmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2405.171802
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 5
pp. 893 – 897

Abstract

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Heartland virus is a suspected tickborne pathogen in the United States. We describe a case of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, then death, in an immunosuppressed elderly man in Missouri, USA, who was infected with Heartland virus.

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