This case report highlights the severe and potentially fatal outcomes of dual viral meningoencephalitis in patients with common variable immunodeficiency.
Highlights fatal risk of dual viral meningoencephalitis in CVID; hypothesis-generating and requires larger studies before guiding practice.
We report here two siblings with common variable immunodeficiency who both contracted a meningoencephalitis with isolates of echovirus and adenovirus. One sibling recovered after treatment; his older sister, however, died from her virus meningoencephalitis.
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