Brief report:
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus transmitted through solid organ transplantation--Massachusetts, 2008.
Transplacental infection by
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. Results of a retrospective serological study in France [in French], Nouv Presse Med.
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection and house mouse (Mus musculus) distribution in urban Baltimore.
Interim guidance for minimizing risk for human
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection associated with rodents.
Age distribution of
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus serum antibody in Birmingham, Alabama: evidence of a decreased risk of infection.
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. In: Waggie K, Kagiyama N, Allen AM, Nomura T, editors.
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), a rodentborne arenavirus, causes inapparent infection in mice but can cause febrile illness, aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, and severe birth defects in humans (www.cdc.gov/ ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/lcmv.htm) (1).
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in employees and mice at multipremises feeder-rodent breeding operation, United States, 2012.
The other sequence, found in Mus mattheyi mice and named Natorduori after the village in which it was found, clusters with
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in all 3 phylogenetic trees.
In contrast, VM resulted in fewer ([less than or equal to] 5) deaths (Table 1), which were either caused by
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus or unspecified.
IFA assay and PCR showed that the agent was
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), an arena-virus transmitted by rodents (24).
To the Editor:
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) is a rodent-borne pathogen that causes a spectrum of disease in humans, ranging from self-limiting meningoencephalitis to congenital birth defects to severe disseminated illness in organ transplant recipients (1).