Fatal tick-borne encephalitis in an immunosuppressed 12-year-old patient

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital České Budějovice, B. Němcové 54, CZ-37001 České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Electronic address: chmelik@nemcb.cz.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital České Budějovice, B. Němcové 54, CZ-37001 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
³ Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, CZ-37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, CZ-62100 Brno, Czech Republic. Electronic address: ruzekd@paru.cas.cz.

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Václav Chmelík et al. J Clin Virol. 2016 Jan.

. 2016 Jan:74:73-4.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.11.029. Epub 2015 Nov 27.

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital České Budějovice, B. Němcové 54, CZ-37001 České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Electronic address: chmelik@nemcb.cz.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital České Budějovice, B. Němcové 54, CZ-37001 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
³ Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, CZ-37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, CZ-62100 Brno, Czech Republic. Electronic address: ruzekd@paru.cas.cz.

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Keywords: Fatal case; Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; Immunosuppressed patient; Tick-borne encephalitis.

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Persistent viremia and urine shedding of tick-borne encephalitis virus in an infected immunosuppressed patient from a new epidemic cluster in North-Eastern Italy.
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