Rapid Detection of Powassan Virus in a Patient With Encephalitis by Metagenomic Sequencing. (13th September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Piantadosi, Anne; Kanjilal, Sanjat; Ganesh, Vijay; Khanna, Arjun; Hyle, Emily P; Rosand, Jonathan; Bold, Tyler; Metsky, Hayden C; Lemieux, Jacob; Leone, Michael J; Freimark, Lisa; Matranga, Christian B; Adams, Gordon; McGrath, Graham; Zamirpour, Siavash; Telford, Sam; Rosenberg, Eric; Cho, Tracey; Frosch, Matthew P; Goldberg, Marcia B; Mukerji, Shibani S; Sabeti, Pardis C
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 66:Number 5(2018)
• Page Start: 789
• Page End: 792
• Publication Date: 2017-09-13
• Subjects: Powassan virus -- encephalitis -- metagenomic sequencing; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix792
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

Abstract: We describe a patient with severe and progressive encephalitis of unknown etiology. We performed rapid metagenomic sequencing from cerebrospinal fluid and identified Powassan virus, an emerging tick-borne flavivirus that has been increasingly detected in the United States.