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JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 432-434Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e31806451c1
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pediatric cancer; febrile neutropenia; pneumonia; human coronavirus
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In this report, we describe a case of pneumonia due to an infection with human coronaviruses (HCoVs)-OC43 in a pediatric leukemia patient with Down syndrome and febrile neutropenia. Not only the recently discovered HCoVs NL63 or HKU1 but also the prototype strains HCoV-OC43 and HCoV-229E have to be considered as respiratory pathogens in immunocompromised pediatric cancer patients. The routine utilization of polymerase chain reaction-based diagnostic tools would certainly elucidate the etiology of a relevant proportion of pneumonias of unknown origin in immunocompromised pediatric patients and would contribute to a better understanding of the role of HCoVs in this setting.
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