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 in:	Clinical 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
Language:	English
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