Current Issue June 2012, Vol. 54, No. 2

The Pan American Society for Clinical Virology (PASCV) was founded in 1977 as the Pan American Group for Rapid Viral Diagnosis (PAG-RVD). It was founded to help raise the standards of diagnostic virology in the Americas as the European Group for Rapid Viral Diagnosis had done elsewhere. The name was changed in 1995 to reflect the expanding role of the society in all areas of clinical virology, including diagnostics, manifestations of viral diseases and viral pathogenesis, prevention of and therapy for viral diseases and the improved understanding of all of these. The PASCV sponsors symposia, workshops and annual awards in clinical virology. Currently 2 awards are presented annually. The Clinical Virology Award (sponsored by Bion Enterprises) and the Diagnostic Virology Award (sponsored by Becton Dickinson). The Society also provides several $600 travel grants, including the Mario Escobar Award, to the Annual Clinical Virology Symposium for students, postdoctoral fellows or technologists who submit abstracts to the meeting.

• A neglected diagnosis in severe diarrhea, thrombocytopenia, and elevated serum creatinine levels
  24 May 2012

  Young Min Hong, Min Seok So, Kyung Pyo Kang, Won Kim, Sung Kwang Park, Sik Lee

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  A 36-year-old man visited the emergency room complaining of severe diarrhea and dehydration. Concomitant symptoms were fever, nausea, vomiting, and oliguria. He had visited family graves 12days before...

• Dengue virus infection in Australia following occupational exposure: A reflection of increasing numbers of imported cases
  23 May 2012

  Benjamin M. Clark, James S. Molton, Tariq Habib, David T. Williams, Emma L. Weston, David W. Smith

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  Nosocomial transmission of dengue virus has been reported infrequently previously, and never in an Australian health care worker (HCW). During a period when higher than normal numbers of individuals r...

• Molecular evidence of St. Louis encephalitis virus infection in patients in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  21 May 2012

  Laura E. Valinotto, Paola R. Barrero, Mariana Viegas, María C. Alvarez López, Alicia S. Mistchenko

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  Summary: We report two cases of St. Louis encephalitis where the virus was detected in patients’ sera directly by molecular techniques allowing subsequent typing. Phylogenetic analysis of both samples...

• Human parvovirus B19 genotype 3 associated with chronic anemia after stem cell transplantation, missed by routine PCR testing
  21 May 2012

  M. Knoester, P.A. von dem Borne, A.C.T.M. Vossen, A.C.M. Kroes, E.C.J. Claas

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  Human parvovirus B19 (B19V) is a well known cause of chronic anemia after solid-organ transplantation and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Due to their immunosuppressed status, transplant pati...

• Genotype impact on long-term virological outcome of chronic hepatitis B virus infection
  21 May 2012

  Sebastian Malmström, Anders Eilard, Simon B. Larsson, Charles Hannoun, Gunnar Norkrans, Magnus Lindh

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  Abstract: Background: The importance of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype on the clinical course of chronic HBV infection is not yet clarified. Objectives: To investigate genotype impact on long-term v...

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