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Clinical Characterization of Human Metapneumovirus Infection Among Patients with Cancer by Mini Kamboj; Marina Gerbin; Chiung-Kang Huang; Carrie Brennan; Jeffrey Stiles; Sergey Balashov; Steven Park; Timothy E. Kiehn; David S. Perlin; Eric G. Pamer; Kent A. Sepkowitz is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: Human metapneumovirus is a recently discovered rna virus that typically causes respiratory disease in children. it has been linked to severe lower airway disease in hematopoietic stem cell and solid-organ transplant recipients. hmpv infection in a large population of patients with underlying cancer and varying degrees of immunosuppression has not been reported. we sought to characterize hmpv infection in patients with cancer. ## Methods: Review of all cases of hmpv infection from two seasons (2005-6 and 2006-7) detected by dfa and/or real-time pcr at mskcc, a tertiary cancer center in new york city. ## Results: Among mskcc patients with cancer, 51 (2.7%) of 1899 patients were positive for hmpv, including 3.2% with hematologic neoplasm and 1.7% with solid tumors. more children (4.5%) were positive than adults (2.2%). pcr detected twice as many cases as dfa. cough and fever were common complaints. the longest shedding period was 80 days. 40 patients received radiographic evaluation; of these, 22 showed abnormalities including patchy (11), ground glass (5), and interstitial infiltrates (4). ## Conclusions: Hmpv causes a nonspecific respiratory illness and was found in m
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- Author
- Mini Kamboj; Marina Gerbin; Chiung-Kang Huang; Carrie Brennan; Jeffrey Stiles; Sergey Balashov; Steven Park; Timothy E. Kiehn; David S. Perlin; Eric G. Pamer; Kent A. Sepkowitz
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0163-4453)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)