Fatal outcome of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection in a traveler with incomplete HAV vaccination and evidence of Rift Valley Fever virus infection

J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Nov;46(11):3850-2. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01102-08. Epub 2008 Sep 3.

Abstract

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is rarely fatal except in patients with chronic liver disease. In the case reported here, an elderly women died of HAV infection 12 years after incomplete HAV vaccination. The possible role of a concordant Rift Valley fever virus infection acquired in Kenya is discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Germany
  • Hepatitis A / diagnosis*
  • Hepatitis A Vaccines / immunology*
  • Hepatitis A virus / isolation & purification*
  • Humans
  • Kenya
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • RNA, Viral / genetics
  • Rift Valley Fever / complications*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Travel*

Substances

  • Hepatitis A Vaccines
  • RNA, Viral

Associated data

  • GENBANK/EU930199