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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2020

Enterovirus and Encephalitis.

Bo-Shiun Chen, Hou-Chen Lee, Kuo-Ming Lee, Yu-Nong Gong, Shin-Ru Shih

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
10.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 111 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Enterovirus infections in children.Pediatric investigation · 2026
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  3. Disease burden of non-polio enterovirus-associated meningitis in children in G20 countries: an analysis based on GBD data and projections to 2050.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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  7. The Meningitis and Encephalitis Registry of Lower Saxony, Germany (MERIN) - design and main results of circulating neurotropic pathogen surveillance, 2003 to 2023.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Bo-Shiun ChenResearch Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Hou-Chen LeeResearch Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Kuo-Ming LeeResearch Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Yu-Nong GongResearch Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Shin-Ru ShihResearch Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Chang Gung University · TWAugusta University · USChang Gung University of Science and Technology · TWLinkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enterovirus-induced infection of the central nervous system (CNS) results in acute inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) and constitutes a significant global burden to human health. These viruses are thought to be highly cytolytic, therefore normal brain function could be greatly compromised following enteroviral infection of the CNS. A further layer of complexity is added by evidence showing that some enteroviruses may establish a persistent infection within the CNS and eventually lead to pathogenesis of certain neurodegenerative disorders. Interestingly, enterovirus encephalitis is particularly common among young children, suggesting a potential causal link between the development of the neuroimmune system and enteroviral neuroinvasion. Although the CNS involvement in enterovirus infections is a relatively rare complication, it represents a serious underlying cause of mortality. Here we review a selection of enteroviruses that infect the CNS and discuss recent advances in the characterization of these enteroviruses with regard to their routes of CNS infection, tropism, virulence, and immune responses.

Indexed as

CNSencephalitisenterovirusPicornaviridaeRNA virus

Identifiers

PMID32153545
PMCPMC7044131
OpenAlexW3008203793

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