PRO/AH/EDR> Circovirus – Viet Nam: acute CNS infection

Other Human Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
Researchers have discovered a new virus in patients in Viet Nam suffering from severe brain infections, a team of scientists reported today [18 Jun 2013] in mBio, the journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The virus was detected in 28 of 644 patients who had severe brain infections and none of 122 patients who had non-infectious brain disorders, according to researchers at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust South East Asia Major Overseas Programme and the