Case Report
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 |
| 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.
