RESPIRATORY

Coronavirus

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Fig. 13.1 Artist illustration of the club-shaped surface projections (peplomers) that give coronaviruses their unique coronal fringe by negative-staining electron microscopy (Illustration by Adrian Galvin, New York, NY) Fig. 13.2…

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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

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Virus family Genus Virus Disease Vector Geographicdistribution Case fatalityrate (%) Flaviviridae Flavivirus Yellow fever Yellow fever Mosquito Tropics, Africa, and South America 20 Dengue Dengue hemorrhagic fever Mosquito Throughoutthe tropics…

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Herpesvirus-4/Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)

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Fig. 21.1 EBV pneumonitis shows dense pulmonary perivascular and interstitial infiltrates 21.8 Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis Lymphomatoid granulomatosis was first described by Liebow and colleagues in 1972 as an angiocentric and angiodestructive…

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Cytomegalovirus

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Histopathology (1) Cytomegaly (2) Eosinophilic intranuclear Cowdry type B inclusions resembling an “owl’s eye” (3) Amphophilic intracytoplasmic inclusions Differential diagnosis Herpes simplex Varicella zoster Adenovirus Measles Reactive pneumocytes Radiographic findings…

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Parainfluenza Virus

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Fig. 10.1 Lung biopsy with parainfluenza infection. (a) Acute and organizing pneumonia with bronchiolitis and multiple multinucleated giant cells consistent with infection by parainfluenza virus. (b, c) Multinucleated giant cell…

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Henipah Viruses

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Fig. 14.1 Nipah virus. (a) Pulmonary vessels showing mild vasculitis and a multinucleated endothelial syncytium. (b) Interstitial pneumonitis. Note small vessel lined by a multinucleated endothelial cell. (c) Interstitial pneumonitis…

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Parvovirus

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Fig. 16.1 Parvovirus infections in the lung are similar to those shown in other organs. This illustration shows the bone marrow of an immunocompromised patient. Note eosinophilic inclusions within early…

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Measles Virus

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Fig. 8.1 Ultrastructure of the measles virus showing a spherical, enveloped virion with a non-segmented negative-stranded RNA genome (With permission from Lancet [Reproduced with permission of Exp. Rev. Mol. Med…

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SV40 and the Lung

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Fig. 22.1 Electron photomicrograph showing cell infected with SV40 virus. Depicted is the nucleus of the cell packed with paracrystalline arrays of viruses, seen here as approximately 40 nm dark…

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