TY - JOUR
AU - Cristina Costales
AU - Malaya Sahoo
AU - ChunHong Huang
AU - Carolina Guimaraes V
AU - Donald Born
AU - Lauren Kushner
AU - Hayley Gans
AU - Thuy Doan
AU - Benjamin Pinsky
AB - <p>We report a fatal case of vaccine-associated measles encephalitis in an immunocompromised child in California, USA. The infection was confirmed by whole-genome RNA sequencing of measles virus from brain tissue. We observed biased matrix-gene hypermutation consistent with persistent measles virus central nervous system infection.</p>

BT - Emerg Infect Dis
DA - 2022 Apr
DO - 10.3201/eid2804.212357
IS - 4
J2 - Emerg Infect Dis
LA - eng
N2 - <p>We report a fatal case of vaccine-associated measles encephalitis in an immunocompromised child in California, USA. The infection was confirmed by whole-genome RNA sequencing of measles virus from brain tissue. We observed biased matrix-gene hypermutation consistent with persistent measles virus central nervous system infection.</p>

PY - 2022
SP - 906
EP - 908
T2 - Emerg Infect Dis
TI - Vaccine-Associated Measles Encephalitis in Immunocompromised Child, California, USA.
VL - 28
SN - 1080-6059
ER -