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Fatal Neonatal Sepsis Associated with Human Adenovirus Type 56 Infection: Genomic Analysis of Three Recent Cases Detected in the United States.
Viruses - 9 Jun 2021
Otto William R, Lamson Daryl M, Gonzalez Gabriel, Weinberg Geoffrey A, Pecora Nicole D, Fisher Brian T, St George Kirsten, Kajon Adriana E
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BACKGROUND: Human adenovirus (HAdV)-D56 was first described in 2011 by genomics analysis of a strain isolated in France in 2008 from a fatal case of neonatal infection. Since then, it has been reported in cases of keratoconjunctivitis and male urethritis. Three epidemiologically unrelated fatal cases of neonatal sepsis associated with infection by HAdV-D strains with a similar genetic makeup were documented in...
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