Fatal human bocavirus infection in an 18-month-old child with chronic lung disease of prematurity

Tina Uršič; Uroš Krivec; Gorazd Kalan; Miroslav Petrovec

doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000000509

Fatal human bocavirus infection in an 18-month-old child with chronic lung disease of prematurity

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2015 Jan;34(1):111-2. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000509.

Authors

Tina Uršič¹, Uroš Krivec, Gorazd Kalan, Miroslav Petrovec

Affiliation

¹ From the *Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Zaloška; †Unit for pulmonary diseases; and ‡Department of Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, University Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Bohoričeva, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

PMID: 25126857
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000509

Abstract

A fatal case of human bocavirus 1 pulmonary infection in an 18-month-old prematurely born child is described. Despite conventional and oscillatory ventilatory support, intractable hyperinflation developed with bilateral pneumothorax and acute cardiac failure 3 days after the onset of respiratory symptoms.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Fatal Outcome
Human bocavirus / isolation & purification*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Premature*
Male
Parvoviridae Infections / diagnosis*
Parvoviridae Infections / pathology*
Parvoviridae Infections / virology
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / pathology*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology