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Enterovirus D68 seen in cancer, stem cell transplant patients
Virus behind outbreak that sickened children also caused illness in immunocompromised adults
Jan. 16, 2015
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By Mary Engel / Hutch News Service
The virus that sent hundreds of children across the nation to hospital emergency rooms with severe respiratory infections last summer also caused serious illness in adult cancer patients, according to researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Children?s and the University of Washington.
A paper published online Thursday in the journal Blood described the pathogen, enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), in eight adults who had received stem cell transplants or chemotherapy for blood cancers. Two of them required mechanical ventilation and admission to intensive care units...
Enterovirus D68 seen in cancer, stem cell transplant patients
Virus behind outbreak that sickened children also caused illness in immunocompromised adults
Jan. 16, 2015
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By Mary Engel / Hutch News Service
The virus that sent hundreds of children across the nation to hospital emergency rooms with severe respiratory infections last summer also caused serious illness in adult cancer patients, according to researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Children?s and the University of Washington.
A paper published online Thursday in the journal Blood described the pathogen, enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), in eight adults who had received stem cell transplants or chemotherapy for blood cancers. Two of them required mechanical ventilation and admission to intensive care units...