Acute liver failure associated with rubella virus in a child.
Acute liver failure is a syndrome with a wide range of etiologic possibilities in children, but in up to 50% of the cases in the literature no diagnosis is established. This case report adds rubella virus to the list of possible causes of acute liver failure. This association was made by serologic, cell culture, molecular, histopathologic, and immunohistochemical methods.
Figueiredo
Cristina Adelaide
CA
Setor de Virologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil. figueiredocris@uol.com.br
Cordovani
Nancy Therezinha Barbagallo
NT
Castrignano
Silvana Beres
SB
Alves
Venancio Avancini Ferreira
VA
Kanamura
Cristina Takami
CT
de Oliveira
Maria Isabel
MI
Fernandes
Flora Maria de Campos
FM
Klautau
Giselle Burlamaqui
GB
Durigon
Edison Luiz
EL
D000818:Animals; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D006801:Humans; D017114:Liver Failure, Acute / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery / Q000821:virology*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008297:Male; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D012409:Rubella / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000821:virology; D012412:Rubella virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014709:Vero Cells; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000235:genetics
D012367:RNA, Viral; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins; C061826:E1 envelope protein, Rubella virus