Pleurodynia caused by an echovirus 1 brought back from the tropics.
A 31 year-old woman presented with acute pain on the left side of the thorax and abdomen, radiating to the back together with fever, after she had returned from traveling in Southeast Asia. Except for pleural friction rub auscultated on the left hemithorax, no physical abnormalities were detected. We diagnosed a classical course of Bornholm disease, caused by an echovirus type 1. While described as a classical pathogen causing Bornholm disease, this genotype has not been reported frequently in Surveillance data in the Western World.
Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: m.leendertse@amc.uva.nl.
Masja
M
Leendertse
Michèle
M
van Vugt
Kimberley S
KS
Benschop
Karin
K
van Dijk
Rene P
RP
Minnaar
Hetty W M
HW
van Eijk
Caspar J
CJ
Hodiamont
Katja C
KC
Wolthers
D000328:Adult; D001210:Asia, Southeastern; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004457:Echovirus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D029822:Enterovirus B, Human / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D011000:Pleurodynia, Epidemic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology; D014195:Travel
D012367:RNA, Viral
5′ UTR; 5′ untranslated region; BP; Bornholm disease; CAV; CBV; CFR; EV; Echovirus 1; Enterovirus; IVIG; National Institute of Public Health and the Environment; PCR; Pleurodynia; RIVM; RNA; VP; base pairs; complement fixation reaction; coxsackievirus A; coxsackievirus B; enterovirus; intravenous immunoglobulin; nAbs; neutralizing antibodies; polymerase chain reaction; ribonucleic acid; viral protein