Chronic diarrhea associated with persistent norovirus excretion in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: report of two cases
Open Access
- 17 May 2011
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 11 (1) , 131
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-131
Abstract
Chronic diarrhea in patients treated with immunosuppressive agents or suffering from immunosuppressive disease can represent a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to the clinician. Norovirus infection, a major cause of acute epidemic diarrhea, has been described as a cause of chronic diarrhea in patients who are immunosuppressed, including transplant recipients and the very young.Keywords
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