Concomitant intestinal adenovirus infection and pulmonary cytomegalovirus infection in children causing fatal enteritis and pneumonia.
Three children in Bangladesh who presented with diarrhoea, cough, dyspnoea, fever, and signs of malnutrition and died in the hospital were shown at post-mortem examination to have both adenovirus infection of the intestine (by immunofluorescence) and cytomegalovirus infection of the lung (by immunoperoxidase staining). This finding of dual viral infections of the intestine and lung in patients with concomitant enteritis and pneumonia provides a basis for symptoms emanating simultaneously from these two organ systems.
Butler
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Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock 79430.
Dunn
D
D
Colmer
J
J
D000258:Adenovirus Infections, Human / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications*; D004751:Enteritis / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011024:Pneumonia, Viral / Q000150:complications*