Abstract
We describe a patient with severe and progressive encephalitis of unknown etiology. We performed rapid metagenomic sequencing from cerebrospinal fluid and identified Powassan virus, an emerging tick-borne flavivirus that has been increasingly detected in the United States.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 789-792 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Clinical Infectious Diseases |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2017.
Keywords
- Encephalitis
- Metagenomic sequencing
- Powassan virus
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