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In recent years, it has been recognised that the community respiratory viruses are a frequent cause of upper and lower respiratory tract infections in immunocompromised hosts such as bone marrow transplant recipients. By contrast, infections by non-polio enteroviruses have rarely been reported after stem cell transplantation. We present four cases of acute respiratory illness with enterovirus isolated as the sole pathogen from bronchoalveolar lavage. All four patients developed pneumonia and three died of progressive pneumonia, which reflects the severity of this complication. We conclude that enteroviral pulmonary infections may be a cause of severe pneumonia in immunocompromised hosts.
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González, Y., Martino, R., Badell, I. et al. Pulmonary enterovirus infections in stem cell transplant recipients. Bone Marrow Transplant 23, 511–513 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1701605
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