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Dianne Murphy, MD; Richard C. Rose III, MD
The University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville

JAMA. 1989;261(8):1147.

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To the Editor. —

We would like to report a case of respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia in a patient infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. We feel it is important to emphasize that this virus may be as devastating a pathogen in adults as in infants and that both a rapid diagnosis and therapy are available.

Respiratory syncytial virus is known as a cause of severe bronchiolitis, pneumonia, apnea, and respiratory failure in infants and children and is particularly lethal for children with abnormal cardiac or pulmonary status.^1,2 A recent article³ has documented respiratory syncytial virus as causing death in 4 and requiring ventilation in 3 of 11 immuno-compromised adults. There is also a recent report⁴ of the successful use of ribavirin to treat respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia in an adult cardiac transplant recipient. None of these patients were infected with human immunodeficiency virus. The following case . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by Drummond Rennie, MD, Deputy Editor (West); Sharon Iverson, Assistant Editor.

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