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Fatal west Nile virus encephalitis in a heart transplant recipient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2015) 53(8) 2749-2752
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00834-15
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The diagnosis of encephalitis is particularly challenging in immunocompromised patients. We report here a case of fatal West Nile virus encephalitis confounded by the presence of budding yeast in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a patient who had undergone heart transplantation for dilated cardiomyopathy 11 months prior to presentation of neurologic symptoms.

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Gomez, A. J., Waggoner, J. J., Itoh, M., Hollander, S. A., Gutierrez, K. M., Budvytiene, I., … Pinsky, B. A. (2015). Fatal west Nile virus encephalitis in a heart transplant recipient. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 53(8), 2749–2752. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00834-15

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