Meningitis Due to Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Endemic in a Hamster Colony
- Donald Armstrong, MD;
- Joseph G. Fortner, MD;
- Wallace P. Rowe, MD;
- John C. Parker, PhD
- From the departments of medicine (Microbiology Laboratory) and surgery, Memorial Hospital; the divisions of immunology and surgical research, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York; the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Microbiological Associates, Inc., Bethesda, Md.
Abstract
Meningitis due to lymphocytic-choriomeningitis (LCM) virus occurred in a 36-year-old man after brief contact with infected hamsters. To our knowledge, this is the second instance of an LCM infection developing in a man exposed to hamsters used for experimental tumor investigation.
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