A Fulminant Case of Adenovirus Genotype C108 Infection in a Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Recipient with x-Linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome Type 1

Bradford A. Becken, Daryl M. Lamson, Gabriel Gonzalez, Sachit Patel, Kirsten St. George, Adriana E. Kajon

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Abstract

A 3-year-old male with X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome type 1 underwent an unrelated umbilical cord blood transplant (UUCBT). The week prior to transplant the patient tested positive for adenovirus (HAdV) with a viral load of <190 copies/mL and was started on cidofovir. UUCBT proceeded as scheduled, and the patient engrafted on day +19. The patient’s HAdV load in serum continued to rise with resulting hepatic dysfunction, despite ongoing therapy with cidofovir and HAdV specific T-cell infusions. The patient died 6 months after transplantation having never cleared the virus. Next generation whole genome sequencing and sequence data analyses identified an intertypic recombinant HAdV-C P1H2F2 closely related (99.6% similarity) to genotype C108 in the isolates from three blood specimens obtained during the last week of life. Incidentally, the de novo assembly strategy enabled the detection of an adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) genome in the DNA purified from the plasma isolates. Proteotyping analysis revealed minor differences in the predicted amino acid sequences for E1A, E1B 19K, E1B 55K, DNA polymerase, penton base, and fiber. None of the mutations previously described for HAdV-C5 variants resistant to cidofovir were identified. In silico restriction enzyme analysis revealed a distinct Sac I profile for the identified virus, supporting its designation as a C108 variant.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number137
JournalViruses
Volume16
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2024

Keywords

  • HAdV-C
  • adenovirus
  • next generation sequencing
  • transplant

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Virology

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