Özet:

Human metapnömovirus (HMPV) is a new respiratory virus identified 18 years before severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. It has clinical symptoms similar to other known viral respiratory infections, and both viruses can cause acute respiratory failure. Although HMPV is known as childhood respiratory infection, it causes mild and self-restrictive infections in most adults, and even in risky patients, clinical travel is complicated and can cause serious morbidity and mortality. As adults do not routine to HMPV in the case of viral infection, the prevalence of HMPV infections in Turkey is unknown and the previously phenomena are included in the pediatric population. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic should be kept in mind, especially when neurological complications are added to respiratory findings. In this report we present two adult phenomena of HMPV pneumonia and encephalitis.

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