Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2007)

Fatal Coxsackievirus A-16 Pneumonitis in Adult

  • François Legay,
  • Nicolas Lévêque,
  • Arnaud Gacouin,
  • Pierre Tattevin,
  • Julien Bouet,
  • Rémi Thomas,
  • Jean-Jacques Chomel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1307.070295
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 7
pp. 1084 – 1084

Abstract

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Coxsackievirus A-16 (CVA-16) is the agent of hand, foot, and mouth disease in children. We report a case of fatal pneumonitis in an adult due to a CVA-16 strain with a low (78.6%) rate of sequence homology with the reference strain. A modified, more virulent, strain of CVA-16 could be emerging.

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