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Fatal Measles Inclusion Body Encephalitis in Adult with Untreated AIDS, France

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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 26, Issue 9, Pages 2231-2234

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CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid2609.200366

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We report a fatal case of measles inclusion body encephalitis occurring in a woman from Romania with AIDS. After an extensive but unsuccessful diagnostic evaluation, a pan-pathogen shotgun metagenomic approach revealed a measles virus infection. We identified no mutations previously associated with neurovirulence.

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