Adenovirus Type 7 Pneumonia in Children Who Died from Measles-Associated Pneumonia, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2014

• DOI: 10.3201/eid2204.151595
• Publication Date: 2016-03-01T16:44:52Z
• Authors: Le Thanh Hai; Hoang Ngoc Thach; Ta Anh Tuan; Dao Huu Nam; Tran Minh Dien; Yuko Sato; Toshio Kumasaka; Tadaki Suzuki; Nozomu Hanaoka; Tsuguto Fujimoto; Harutaka Katano; Hideki Hasegawa; Shoji Kawachi; Noriko Nakajima
• Keywords: Male; Adenoviridae Infections; Pneumonia, Viral; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Disease Outbreaks; adenovirus infection; 03 medical and health sciences; children; secondary infection; measles; pneumonia; Humans; viruses; 0303 health sciences; Coinfection; Adenoviruses, Human; R; Dispatch; Infant; Survival Analysis; 3. Good health; Vietnam; Measles virus; Child, Preschool; Medicine; Female; Measles

Abstract During a 2014 measles outbreak in Vietnam, postmortem pathologic examination of hospitalized children who died showed that adenovirus type 7 pneumonia was contributory cause death with measles-associated immune suppression. Adenovirus should be recognized as major secondary infection after measles.