TY - JOUR
T1 - Persistent rhinovirus infection in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients with impaired cellular immunity
AU - Piralla, Antonio
AU - Zecca, Marco
AU - Comoli, Patrizia
AU - Girello, Alessia
AU - Maccario, Rita
AU - Baldanti, Fausto
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Background: HRV infections are generally self-limiting in healthy subjects, whereas in immunocompromised hosts HRV infections can lead to severe complications and persistent infections. The persistence of HRV shedding could be due to the inefficient immunological control of a single infectious episode. Objectives: To investigate the clinical, virologic and immunologic characteristics of pediatric HSCT recipients with HRV-PI infection. Study design: During the period 2006-2012, eight hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients presented with persistent rhinovirus infection (HRV-PI, ≥30 days). Viral load and T-CD4+, T-CD8+, B and NK lymphocyte counts at the onset of infection were compared with those of fourteen HSCT recipients with acute HRV infection (HRV-AI, ≤15 days). Results: The median duration of HRV positivity in patients with HRV-PI was 61 days (range 30-174 days) and phylogenetic analysis showed the persistence of a single HRV type in all patients (100%). In HSCT recipients with HRV-PI, T-CD4+, T-CD8+ and NK cell counts at the onset of infection were significantly lower than those observed in recipients with HRV-AI (p+, T-CD8+and NK lymphocyte counts in HRV-PI patients (p
AB - Background: HRV infections are generally self-limiting in healthy subjects, whereas in immunocompromised hosts HRV infections can lead to severe complications and persistent infections. The persistence of HRV shedding could be due to the inefficient immunological control of a single infectious episode. Objectives: To investigate the clinical, virologic and immunologic characteristics of pediatric HSCT recipients with HRV-PI infection. Study design: During the period 2006-2012, eight hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients presented with persistent rhinovirus infection (HRV-PI, ≥30 days). Viral load and T-CD4+, T-CD8+, B and NK lymphocyte counts at the onset of infection were compared with those of fourteen HSCT recipients with acute HRV infection (HRV-AI, ≤15 days). Results: The median duration of HRV positivity in patients with HRV-PI was 61 days (range 30-174 days) and phylogenetic analysis showed the persistence of a single HRV type in all patients (100%). In HSCT recipients with HRV-PI, T-CD4+, T-CD8+ and NK cell counts at the onset of infection were significantly lower than those observed in recipients with HRV-AI (p+, T-CD8+and NK lymphocyte counts in HRV-PI patients (p
KW - Cellular immunity
KW - Hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
KW - HRV persistent infection
KW - Immunocompromised pediatric patients
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.03.022
DO - 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.03.022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84928879866
VL - 67
SP - 38
EP - 42
JO - Journal of Clinical Virology
JF - Journal of Clinical Virology
SN - 1386-6532
ER -