Human Polyomavirus-6 Infecting Lymph Nodes of a Patient With an Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia With Eosinophilia or Kimura Disease

Nicolas Rascovan , Sonia Monteil Bouchard , Jean-Jacques Grob (1, 2) , Anne-Marie Collet-Villette , Caroline Gaudy-Marqueste (2, 1) , Martin Penicaud , Hubert Lepidi (3) , Didier Raoult (3) , Christelle Desnues (3)

1 TIMONE - Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM]
2 Département de dermatologie, CHU Marseille
3 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes

Human polyomavirus 6 (HPyV6) is most often detected at the skin surface of healthy individuals. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that HPyV6 also infects internal tissues. We provide direct evidence of HPyV6 infecting a lymph node of a patient with an angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia or Kimura disease.

Domaines: Maladies infectieuses

Nicolas Rascovan, Sonia Monteil Bouchard, Jean-Jacques Grob, Anne-Marie Collet-Villette, Caroline Gaudy-Marqueste, et al.. Human Polyomavirus-6 Infecting Lymph Nodes of a Patient With an Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia With Eosinophilia or Kimura Disease. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2016, 62 (11), pp.1419-1421. ⟨10.1093/cid/ciw135⟩. ⟨hal-01458395⟩