Powassan Virus Infection Likely Acquired Through Blood Transfusion Presenting as Encephalitis in a Kidney Transplant Recipient

A kidney transplant patient without known tick exposure developed encephalitis 3 weeks after transplantation. During the transplant hospitalization, the patient had received a blood transfusion from an asymptomatic donor later discovered to have been infected with Powassan virus. Here, we describe a...

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Published inClinical infectious diseases Vol. 72; no. 6; pp. 1051 - 1054
Main Authors Taylor, Lindsay, Condon, Taryn, Destrampe, Eric M, Brown, Jennifer A, McGavic, Jeanette, Gould, Carolyn V, Chambers, Trudy V, Kosoy, Olga I, Burkhalter, Kristen L, Annambhotla, Pallavi, Basavaraju, Sridhar V, Groves, Jamel, Osborn, Rebecca A, Weiss, John, Stramer, Susan L, Misch, Elizabeth A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 15.03.2021
Subjects
Animals
Blood Transfusion
Encephalitis - diagnosis
Encephalitis - etiology
Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne
Encephalitis, Tick-Borne - diagnosis
Humans
Kidney Transplantation - adverse effects
Virus Diseases
blood transfusion
Powassan virus
encephalitis
renal transplant
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Summary:A kidney transplant patient without known tick exposure developed encephalitis 3 weeks after transplantation. During the transplant hospitalization, the patient had received a blood transfusion from an asymptomatic donor later discovered to have been infected with Powassan virus. Here, we describe a probable instance of transfusion-transmitted Powassan virus infection.
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ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1093/cid/ciaa738