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- The West Nile Virus (WNV) is an RNA virus primarily transmitted by mosquitoes and birds, not from person to person.
- While many infected individuals experience mild symptoms like fever and headache, serious cases can lead to severe complications like encephalitis.
- This text discusses two patients on peritoneal dialysis who were infected with WNV and reviews related literature on kidney disease and WNV.
Article Abstract
The West Nile Virus (WNV), an RNA arbovirus, has been transmitted by wild birds and conveyed by ticks and mosquitoes, with wide diffusion all over the world; it is not transmitted from human to human. It can give clinical symptoms only in a minority of infected subjects such as fever, headache, muscle tiredness, visual disturbances, drowsiness, convulsions and muscle paralysis; in the most serious cases even potentially fatal encephalitis. In the literature there are few reports on WNV infection in patients with kidney diseases: here we report our experience on two patients on peritoneal dialysis infected by WNV with a revision of the literature.
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