Fatal Yellow Fever in a Kidney Transplant Patient.

Lígia C Pierrotti, Amaro N Duarte-Neto, Alice T W Song, Carlucci G Ventura, Elias David-Neto, Luiz S Azevedo

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2020 Jan 01

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A kidney-transplanted patient, unvaccinated against yellow fever (YF), developed high fever, progressed rapidly to hepatic insufficiency and coma, and died 8 days later. Real-time polymarase chain reaction for YF virus collected on the seventh day of symptoms was positive. Autopsy showed disseminated infection and midzonal hepatitis with apoptotic hepatocytes and minimal inflammatory reaction. © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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Lígia C Pierrotti, Amaro N Duarte-Neto, Alice T W Song, Carlucci G Ventura, Elias David-Neto, Luiz S Azevedo. Fatal Yellow Fever in a Kidney Transplant Patient. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2020 Jan 01;70(1):144-148