No metagenomic evidence of causative viral pathogens in postencephalitic parkinsonism following encephalitis lethargica
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- Postencephalitic parkinsonism (PEP) is a disease of unknown etiology and pathophysiology following encephalitis lethargica (EL), an acute-onset polioencephalitis of cryptic cause in the 1920s. PEP is a tauopathy with multisystem neuronal loss and gliosis, clinically characterized by bradykinesia, rigidity, rest tremor, and oculogyric crises. Though a viral cause of EL is likely, past polymerase chain reaction-based investigations in the etiology of both PEP and EL were negative. PEP might be caused directly by an unknown viral pathogen or thePostencephalitic parkinsonism (PEP) is a disease of unknown etiology and pathophysiology following encephalitis lethargica (EL), an acute-onset polioencephalitis of cryptic cause in the 1920s. PEP is a tauopathy with multisystem neuronal loss and gliosis, clinically characterized by bradykinesia, rigidity, rest tremor, and oculogyric crises. Though a viral cause of EL is likely, past polymerase chain reaction-based investigations in the etiology of both PEP and EL were negative. PEP might be caused directly by an unknown viral pathogen or the consequence of a post-infectious immunopathology. The development of metagenomic next-generation sequencing in conjunction with bioinformatic techniques has generated a broad-range tool for the detection of unknown pathogens in the recent past. Retrospective identification and characterization of pathogens responsible for past infectious diseases can be successfully performed with formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue samples. In this study, we analyzed 24 FFPE brain samples from six patients with PEP by unbiased metagenomic next-generation sequencing. Our results show that no evidence for the presence of a specific or putative (novel) viral pathogen was found, suggesting a likely post-infectious immune-mediated etiology of PEP.…
Author: | Dániel Cadar, Kurt A. Jellinger, Peter Riederer, Sabrina Strobel, Camelia-Maria Monoranu, Dennis Tappe |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-245074 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Medizinische Fakultät / Pathologisches Institut |
Medizinische Fakultät / Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie | |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Microorganisms |
ISSN: | 2076-2607 |
Year of Completion: | 2021 |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 8 |
Article Number: | 1716 |
Source: | Microorganisms (2021) 9:8, 1716. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9081716 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9081716 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Tag: | encephalitis lethargica; metagenomics; neuropathology; postencephalitic parkinsonism; tauopathy; von Economo |
Release Date: | 2022/11/29 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/08/12 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |