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Prolonged Symptoms in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients with Enteroviral Meningitis
| Smith JA1* Kaul DR2 | ||
| 1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison WI, USA | ||
| 2Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor MI, USA | ||
| Corresponding Author : | Smith JA Department of Internal Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health 600 Highland Avenue, Madison Wisconsin 53792, USA Tel: 608-263-1545 Fax: 608-263-4464 E-mail: jsmith@med.wisc.edu |
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| Received September 10, 2013; Accepted September 28, 2013; Published October 07, 2013 | ||
| Citation: Smith JA, Kaul DR (2013) Prolonged Symptoms in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients with Enteroviral Meningitis. J Infect Dis Ther 1:116. doi: 10.4172/2332-0877.1000116 | ||
| Copyright: © 2013 Smith JA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | ||
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Abstract
In both adults and children, enteroviruses are the most common cause of aseptic meningitis, and a brief and benign course is typical. We describe the first reported cases of enteroviral meningitis in Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) recipients and note a prolonged duration of symptoms. Further, our cases illustrate the utility of the rapid enterovirus Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in avoiding unnecessary antibiotics and diagnostic studies.
