Record number:
590
Adverse Occurrence type:
MPHO Type:
Estimated frequency:
As of Aug 2012: US 4 donors (14 recipients) with 11 deaths
Time to detection:
10 days
Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:
Pneumonia, hepatitis, dyspnea, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting;
Demonstration of imputability or root cause:
Certain. Donor and recipients positive by virus culture and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction [PCR], with identical sequences of the 396-bp fragment of the large segment of the virus. Presence of IgM and LCMV antigen positve immunocytochemistry.
Imputability grade:
3 Definite/Certain/Proven
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