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ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2015

A child with acute encephalopathy associated with quadruple viral infection.

Keiko Nakata, Mitsuru Kashiwagi, Midori Masuda, Seiji Shigehara, Chizu Oba, Shinya Murata, Tetsuo Kase, Jun A Komano

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Article in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Keiko NakataDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health , Osaka , Japan.
Mitsuru KashiwagiDepartment of Paediatrics, Hirakata City Hospital , Hirakata , Japan.
Midori MasudaDepartment of Paediatrics, Hirakata City Hospital , Hirakata , Japan.
Seiji ShigeharaDepartment of Paediatrics, Hirakata City Hospital , Hirakata , Japan.
Chizu ObaDepartment of Paediatrics, Hirakata City Hospital , Hirakata , Japan.
Shinya MurataDepartment of Paediatrics, Hirakata City Hospital , Hirakata , Japan.
Tetsuo KaseDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health , Osaka , Japan.
Jun A KomanoDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health , Osaka , Japan ; Department of Clinical Laboratory, National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center , Nagoya , Japan.
Municipal Hirakata City Hospital · JPOsaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

unlabelledPediatric acute encephalopathy (AE) was sometimes attributed to virus infection. However, viral infection does not always result in AE. The risk factors for developing infantile AE upon virus infection remain to be determined. Here, we report an infant with AE co-infected with human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) and three picornaviruses, including coxsackievirus A6 (CVA6), Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), and human parechovirus (HPeV). EV-D68 was vertically transmitted to the infant from his mother. CVA6 and HPeV were likely transmitted to the infant at the nursery school. HHV-6 might be re-activated in the patient. It remained undetermined, which pathogen played the central role in the AE pathogenesis. However, active, simultaneous infection of four viruses should have evoked the cytokine storm, leading to the pathogenesis of AE.

conclusionan infant case with active quadruple infection of potentially AE-causing viruses was seldom reported partly because systematic nucleic acid-based laboratory tests on picornaviruses were not common. We propose that simultaneous viral infection may serve as a risk factor for the development of AE.

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acute encephalopathycoxsackievirus A6enterovirus D68human herpesvirus-6human parechovirusrisk factorviral co-infection

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