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A 2 year old girl develops a fever, anorexia and a cough which last three weeks. Following this event, she presented with intention tremor and increasing difficulty with crawling. At the age of 3, a nerve biopsy was done which made the diagnosis of metachromatic leukodystrophy. EM examination of the nerve biopsy revealed large quantitites of abnormal structures in the cytoplasm of Schwann and phagocytic cells. Virus like spheroid bodies were present in a few axons and cytoplasm of Schwann cells.
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PMID:Inclusions in the sural nerve in metachromatic leukodystrophy. 124 2

Two children and 29 of 31 crew members aboard a grain freighter became acutely ill after inhaling the toxic fumigant phosphine; one child died. Predominant symptoms were headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, cough, and shortness of breath. Abnormal physical findings included jaundice, paresthesias, ataxia, intention tremor, and diplopia. Focal myocardial infiltration with necrosis, pulmonary edema, and widespread small-vessel injury were found at postmortem examination of the dead child. The surviving child showed ECG and echocardiographic evidence of myocardial injury and transient elevation of the MB fraction of serum creatinine phosphokinase. Illness was significantly associated with living or working amidships or on the forward deck areas of the vessel. Phosphine gas was found to have escaped from the holds through a cable housing located near the midships ventilation intake and around hatch covers on the forward deck. The outbreak illustrates the hazards associated with shipboard fumigation.
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PMID:Acute phosphine poisoning aboard a grain freighter. Epidemiologic, clinical, and pathological findings. 738 74