Two Cases of Primary Human Parainfluenza Virus 1 Pneumonia in Which Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Yielded Human Parainfluenza Virus 1.

Two Cases of Primary Human Parainfluenza Virus 1 Pneumonia in Which Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Yielded Human Parainfluenza Virus 1. Intern Med. 2019 Sep 11;: Authors: Ishiguro T, Kobayashi Y, Takano K, Ozawa R, Shimizu Y, Takayanagi N Abstract Two patients, a 76-year-old woman and 66-year-old woman, presented to our hospital with symptoms of lower respiratory tract infection. Both patients showed chest imaging findings of bilateral ground-glass opacities and consolidations. We initially suspected these patients of having influenza-associated pneumonia and cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, respectively, and performed bronchoalveolar lavage, but only human parainfluenza virus-1 infection was detected by multiplex polymerase chain reaction testing. These findings suggest that pneumonia due to human parainfluenza virus-1 should be included in the differential diagnosis of such cases. PMID: 31511487 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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