2020/09/14 by Fatemeh Sakhaee, Farzam Vaziri, Golnaz Bahramali +2 · 7 citations
Medicine · #Respiratory viral infections research #Tracheal and airway disorders #Neonatal Respiratory Health Research #Primary ciliary dyskinesia #Pneumonia #Dyskinesia #Medicine #Disease #Pathology #Internal medicine #Bronchiectasis #Lung
paper · pdf · doi:10.3201/eid2610.191613
published in Emerging infectious diseases 26(10), 2524-2526 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
openalex publication_date 2020/09/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/26
Primary ciliary dyskinesia is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that causes oto-sino-pulmonary disease. We report a case of pulmonary infection related to mimivirus in a 10-year-old boy with primary ciliary dyskinesia that was identified using molecular techniques. Our findings indicate that the lineage C of mimivirus may cause pneumonia in humans.