Persistent human cosavirus infection in lung transplant recipient, Italy

Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Oct;19(10):1667-9. doi: 10.3201/eid1910.130352.

Abstract

Human cosavirus is a novel picornavirus recently identified in feces from children in southern Asia. We report infection with human cosavirus in a patient in the Mediterranean area. The patient was an adult double lung transplant recipient who had chronic diarrhea associated with persistent infection with human cosavirus.

Keywords: Italy; epidemiology; human cosavirus; lung transplant; persistent infection; transplant recipient; viruses.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Diarrhea / diagnosis*
  • Diarrhea / virology
  • Feces / virology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Italy
  • Lung Transplantation*
  • Molecular Typing
  • Picornaviridae / genetics*
  • Picornaviridae Infections / diagnosis*
  • Picornaviridae Infections / virology
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Transplantation
  • Viral Structural Proteins / genetics

Substances

  • Viral Structural Proteins