A New Arenavirus in a Cluster of Fatal Transplant-Associated Diseases
Author(s) -
Gustavo Palacios,
Julian Druce,
Lei Du,
Thomas Tran,
Chris Birch,
Thomas Briese,
Sean Conlan,
PhenixLan Quan,
Jeffrey Hui,
John Marshall,
Jan Fredrik Simons,
Michael D. Miller,
Christopher D. Paddock,
WunJu Shieh,
Cynthia S. Goldsmith,
Sherif R. Zaki,
Mike Catton,
W. Ian Lipkin
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa073785
Subject(s) - medicine , arenavirus , polymerase chain reaction , organ transplantation , transplantation , serology , immunology , virology , lymphocytic choriomeningitis , antibody , biology , immune system , genetics , gene , cd8
Three patients who received visceral-organ transplants from a single donor on the same day died of a febrile illness 4 to 6 weeks after transplantation. Culture, polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) and serologic assays, and oligonucleotide microarray analysis for a wide range of infectious agents were not informative.
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