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- Title
Encephalitis Caused by Jamestown Canyon Virus in a Liver Transplant Patient, North Carolina, USA, 2017.
- Authors
Ciccone, Emily J; Markmann, Alena J; Srinivas, Megan L; Levinson, Kara J; Miller, Melissa B; Duin, David van; Gay, Cynthia L
- Abstract
We describe the first documented case of Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) in North Carolina, which occurred in a liver transplant patient who presented acutely with headache, aphasia, and confusion. This is also the first report of recovery from JCV encephalitis following treatment with intravenous immune globulin.
- Subjects
NORTH Carolina; LIVER transplantation; CANYONS; EMERGING infectious diseases; ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUSES; BK virus
- Publication
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
2328-8957
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1093/ofid/ofac031