Giant cell pneumonia associated with parainfluenza virus type 3 infection.
Giant cell pneumonia associated with parainfluenza virus type 3 infection and chronic poliovirus type 2 meningoencephalomyelitis are documented in an infant with combined immunologic deficiency (Swiss type). Caution should be exercised in attributing cases of giant cell pneumonia to measles virus without serologic or virologic evidence.
D006801:Humans; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000150:complications; D007223:Infant; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000150:complications; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000150:complications; D010224:Parainfluenza Virus 3, Human; D018184:Paramyxoviridae Infections / Q000150:complications*; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology