Authors:

Benjamin LA, Lewthwaite P, Vasanthapuram R, Zhao G, Sharp C, Simmonds P, Wang D, Solomon T.

Abstract:

To investigate whether uncharacterized infectious agents were associated with neurologic disease, we analyzed cerebrospinal fluid specimens from 12 children with acute central nervous system infection. A high-throughput pyrosequencing screen detected human parvovirus 4 DNA in cerebrospinal fluid of 2 children with encephalitis of unknown etiology.

Journal:

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Year:

2011

PMID:

21801629

PMCID:

PMC3381555

Hyperlink:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3381555/