Open AccessSudden Infant Death in an 8-Month-Old Baby With Dengue Virus Infection
Author(s) -
Margherita Neri,
Shafie M. Othman,
Santina Cantatore,
Dania De Carlo,
Cristoforo Pomara,
Irene Riezzo,
Emanuela Turillazzi,
Vittorio Fineschi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0b013e31825c4a08
Subject(s) - medicine , dengue fever , dengue virus , virology , virus , viral disease , immunology , viral infection , pediatrics
Sudden infant death due to dengue virus infection is very rare. An 8-month-old male infant was found unresponsive during a nap in his nursery school. We emphasize the usefulness of dengue viral antigens as a postmortem diagnostic technique to demonstrate the presence of virus in human tissue specimens by immunohistochemistry and Western blotting.