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Rapid detection of powassan virus in a patient with encephalitis by metagenomic sequencing

  • Anne Piantadosi
  • , Sanjat Kanjilal
  • , Vijay Ganesh
  • , Arjun Khanna
  • , Emily P. Hyle
  • , Jonathan Rosand
  • , Tyler Bold
  • , Hayden C. Metsky
  • , Jacob Lemieux
  • , Michael J. Leone
  • , Lisa Freimark
  • , Christian B. Matranga
  • , Gordon Adams
  • , Graham McGrath
  • , Siavash Zamirpour
  • , Sam Telford
  • , Eric Rosenberg
  • , Tracey Cho
  • , Matthew P. Frosch
  • , Marcia B. Goldberg
  • Shibani S. Mukerji, Pardis C. Sabeti

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)789-792
Number of pages4
JournalClinical Infectious Diseases
Volume66
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2018

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Keywords

  • Encephalitis
  • Metagenomic sequencing
  • Powassan virus

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