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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2003, p. 4605-4610, Vol. 41, No. 10
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.10.4605-4610.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Molecular Evidence of Persistent Echovirus 13 Meningoencephalitis in a Patient with Relapsed Lymphoma after an Outbreak of Meningitis in 2000

Christine Archimbaud,^1* Jean-Luc Bailly,¹ Martine Chambon,¹ Olivier Tournilhac,² Philippe Travade,² and Hélène Peigue-Lafeuille¹

Laboratoire de Virologie, Faculté de Médecine, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 1,¹ Service d'Hématologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire, 63003 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 1, France²

Received 12 March 2003/ Returned for modification 29 May 2003/ Accepted 28 July 2003

Enteroviral meningoencephalitis was diagnosed in a patient with an immunodeficiency syndrome acquired after treatment with rituximab for a relapsed primary B-cell lymphoma. A second meningoencephalitic episode was diagnosed 6 months later and was successfully treated with a combination of immunoglobulins and pleconaril. The infection was persistent since the enterovirus genome was detected in five sequential specimens of cerebrospinal fluid collected over 9 months. An echovirus 13 isolate was isolated in the first three samples. The viral sequence encoding the VP1 capsid protein of the three isolates was determined and was compared with that of four control viruses. The virus isolates recovered from the patient shared >99% nucleotide sequence similarity with one another. In a phylogenetic tree, they were directly related to a control virus obtained from a patient hospitalized in 2000 during an outbreak of enterovirus meningitis. The epidemiological origin of a chronic echovirus infection in a patient with immune deficiency suggests that the echovirus had been continuously circulating in the general population after the outbreak that had revealed its emergence.

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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Virologie, Faculté de Médecine, 28 Place Henri-Dunant, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 1, France. Phone: 33 4 73 17 81 40. Fax: 33 4 73 44 90 29. E-mail: christine.ARCHIMBAUD{at}u-clermont1.fr.

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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2003, p. 4605-4610, Vol. 41, No. 10
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.10.4605-4610.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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