Disseminated adenovirus infection in cancer patients presenting with focal pulmonary consolidation. uri icon

Overview

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.

publication date

  • October 16, 2013

Research

keywords

  • Adenoviridae
  • Adenovirus Infections, Human
  • Neoplasms
  • Pneumonia, Viral
  • Viremia

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3911433

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84891468750

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.bbmt.2011.09.007

PubMed ID

  • 24131690

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 52

issue

  • 1