TY - JOUR AU - Marinho, Paula E.S. AU - Alvarenga, Pedro P.M. AU - Crispim, Ana P.C. AU - Candiani, Talitah M.S. AU - Alvarenga, Alice AU - Bechler, Isabela AU - Alves, Pedro AU - Dornas, Fabio AU - de Oliveira, Danilo AU - Bentes, Aline AU - Christo, Paulo AU - Kroon, Erna T1 - Wild-Type Yellow Fever Virus RNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Child T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 8 SP - 1567 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report a 3-year-old child who was hospitalized because of severe manifestations of the central nervous system. The child died after 6 days of hospitalization. Analysis of postmortem cerebrospinal fluid showed the presence of yellow fever virus RNA. Nucleotide sequencing confirmed that the virus was wild-type yellow fever virus. KW - Yellow fever virus KW - viruses KW - flavivirus KW - yellow fever KW - child KW - vector-borne infections KW - mosquito-borne infections KW - cerebrospinal fluid KW - central nervous system KW - meningitis/encephalitis KW - yellow fever virus RNA KW - wild-type virus KW - CSF KW - CNS DO - 10.3201/eid2508.181479 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/8/18-1479_article ER - End of Reference