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Powassan Virus Neuropathology and Genomic Diversity in Patients With Fatal Encephalitis
29 Aug 2020
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BACKGROUND: Powassan virus (POWV) is an emerging cause of severe encephalitis; very little is known about human pathogenicity due to challenges in diagnosis and viral RNA recovery. We present 3 patients with fatal encephalitis due to POWV lineage II (deer tick virus). METHODS: We obtained 27 unique samples, including from brain biopsy and autopsy, and used metagenomic sequencing, quantitative reverse...
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