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Yeon Joo Lee1, Paola Palomino-Guilen, N Esther Babady, Daryl M Lamson, Kirsten St George, Yi-Wei Tang, Genovefa A Papanicolaou.
Abstract
We report disseminated adenovirus (ADV) infection in four adult cancer patients presenting with focal pulmonary consolidation. In all cases, ADV was recovered from respiratory specimens and ADV viremia (>1 × 10(5) copies/ml) was determined by a quantitative PCR assay. Despite antiviral therapy, 3 (75%) patients died. ADV should be considered as a possible cause of severe pneumonia in immunosuppressed patients.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24131690 PMCID: PMC3911433 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01893-13
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948