Metagenomic Sequencing of an Echovirus 30 Genome From Cerebrospinal Fluid of a Patient With Aseptic Meningitis and Orchitis.

Open Forum Infect Dis
Authors
Abstract

Enteroviruses cause a wide spectrum of clinical disease. In this study, we describe the case of a young man with orchitis and aseptic meningitis who was diagnosed with enterovirus infection. Using unbiased "metagenomic" massively parallel sequencing, we assembled a near-complete viral genome, the first use of this method for full-genome viral sequencing from cerebrospinal fluid. We found that the genome belonged to the subgroup echovirus 30, which is a common cause of aseptic meningitis but has not been previously reported to cause orchitis.

Year of Publication
2017
Journal
Open Forum Infect Dis
Volume
4
Issue
3
Pages
ofx138
Date Published
2017 Summer
ISSN
2328-8957
DOI
10.1093/ofid/ofx138
PubMed ID
28761901
PubMed Central ID
PMC5534216
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Grant list
KL2 TR001100 / TR / NCATS NIH HHS / United States
T32 AG000222 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States
T32 AI007061 / AI / NIAID NIH HHS / United States