ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2021
Striking Decrease of Enteroviral Meningitis in Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Clinical and Laboratory Profiles, Time to Presentation, and Antibacterial Therapy in Children with Aseptic Meningitis: A Comparison of Confirmed Enteroviral and Unidentified-Etiology Cases.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Nationwide Trends in Hospitalizations and Clinical Outcomes for Meningitis and Encephalitis: A 10-year Swiss Population-based Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Changes in respiratory viruses in infancy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a prospective cohort study.BMJ open respiratory research · 2025Observational
- Alterations and Dynamics of Major Meningitis Etiological Agents During and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Review
- Epidemiological, Biological, and Clinical Characteristics of Central Nervous System Enterovirus Infections Among Hospitalized Patients at Ibn Sina University Hospital Center in Rabat: Case Study Report (A Series of 19 Cases).Advances in virology · 2024Article
- [Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the occurrence of neurological infectious diseases].Der Nervenarzt · 2023Review
- Explanation of hand, foot, and mouth disease cases in Japan using Google Trends before and during the COVID-19: infodemiology study.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Detection of Enterovirus D68 in Wastewater Samples from the UK between July and November 2021.Viruses · 2022Article
- Etiology, Clinical Phenotypes, Epidemiological Correlates, Laboratory Biomarkers and Diagnostic Challenges of Pediatric Viral Meningitis: Descriptive Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
- Changes in the Epidemiology and Causative Pathogens of Meningitis in Children After the Outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Multicenter Database Study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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7 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
We report the unprecedented complete absence of pediatric enteroviral meningitis in 2020 in the area of Bern, Switzerland. Presumably an unintended effect of coronavirus disease 2019 public health measures, this finding highlights the potential of community-wide nonpharmaceutical interventions for controlling the circulation of a major pediatric pathogen, which is mainly transmitted by the fecal-oral route.
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