Acute meningoencephalitis caused by adenovirus serotype 26

Erik R Dubberke Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Benjamin Tu Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Dennis J Rivet Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Gregory A Storch Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Anucha Apisarnthanarak Thammasart University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand

Robert E Schmidt Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Stuart Weiss Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Louis B Polish Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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Abstract

Adenoviridae are rare causes of meningoencephalitis in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts. In this article the authors report a case of adenoviral meningoencephalitis caused by serotype 26 and its identification, not described previously, in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by PCR and brain tissue by immunohistochemical staining. Journal of NeuroVirology (2006) 12 235–240.

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