Current Issue February 2012, Vol. 53, No. 2

The Pan American Society for Clinical Virology (PASCV) was founded in 1977 as the Pan American Group for Rapid Viral Diagnosis (PAG-RVD). It was founded to help raise the standards of diagnostic virology in the Americas as the European Group for Rapid Viral Diagnosis had done elsewhere. The name was changed in 1995 to reflect the expanding role of the society in all areas of clinical virology, including diagnostics, manifestations of viral diseases and viral pathogenesis, prevention of and therapy for viral diseases and the improved understanding of all of these. The PASCV sponsors symposia, workshops and annual awards in clinical virology. Currently 2 awards are presented annually. The Clinical Virology Award (sponsored by Bion Enterprises) and the Diagnostic Virology Award (sponsored by Becton Dickinson). The Society also provides several $600 travel grants, including the Mario Escobar Award, to the Annual Clinical Virology Symposium for students, postdoctoral fellows or technologists who submit abstracts to the meeting.

• Lack of seasonality of primary human cytomegalovirus infection in pregnancy
  25 January 2012

  Manuela Formica, Milena Furione, Maurizio Zavattoni, Vanina Rognoni, Alessia Arossa, Mariam Nazifi, Maria Grazia Revello

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  Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is an opportunistic pathogen belonging to the herpesviridae family and, like all herpesviruses, undergoes latency and reactivation in its human host. HCMV has developed ve...

• Genetic diversity of human adenovirus in hospitalized children with severe acute lower respiratory infections in Paraguay
  24 January 2012

  Emilio E. Espínola, Graciela Russomando, Wilma Basualdo, Daniel A. Benítez, Graciela Meza, Laura Maldonado, Gláucia Paranhos-Baccalà

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  Adenoviruses (AdVs), members of the family Adenoviridae, belong to a complex group of viral pathogens that infect many species of vertebrates and cause a broad range of clinical manifestations in huma...

• Multiple cranial neuropathies after a rash in two patients
  24 January 2012

  Peng-Soon Ng, Cheng-Chuan Lee, Kevin Tan

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  A previously healthy 31-year-old male presented with acute left facial weakness and horizontal binocular diplopia on looking to the left. Three weeks prior to that, he had fever, myalgia and a general...

• Prospective genotyping of human rhinoviruses in children and adults during the winter of 2009–2010
  24 January 2012

  Cécile Henquell, Audrey Mirand, Anne-Laure Deusebis, Christel Regagnon, Christine Archimbaud, Martine Chambon, Jean-Luc Bailly, Florence Gourdon, Eric Hermet, Jean-Benoît Dauphin, André Labbé, Hélène Peigue-Lafeuille

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  Abstract: Background: About 100 serotypes of human rhinovirus (HRV), classified into two species, have been identified by 1990. Uncultivable HRV variants have recently been identified and designated a...

• Awareness of cytomegalovirus infection among pregnant women in France
  24 January 2012

  A.G. Cordier, S. Guitton, C. Vauloup-Fellous, L. Grangeot-Keros, J.M. Ayoubi, A. Benachi, O. Picone

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  Abstract: Background: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most frequent cause of congenital virus infection. Approximately 1% of newborns are infected by CMV at birth with severe consequences among 10% of th...

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