ArticleEpidemiology and infection2023
An outbreak of nosocomial infection of neonatal aseptic meningitis caused by echovirus 18.
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- Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of hospitalized children with enterovirus infection: a retrospective study from 2016 to 2025 at Beijing children's hospital.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Circulated echovirus 18 strains in Guangdong Province and worldwide: A novel perspective on genetic diversity and recombination patterns.Virulence · 2025Article
- Epidemiological and Clinical Insights into Enterovirus Circulation in Europe, 2018-2023: A Multicenter Retrospective Surveillance Study.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Two dramatically different clinical scenarios of neonatal Echovirus-11 infection in late preterm male twins: a case report and review of the literature.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2025Review
- Report of an outbreak of enterovirus disease in a neonatal intensive care unit and a systematic review of the literature.AIMS microbiology · 2025Review
- A meningoencephalitis outbreak associated with echovirus type 18 (E18) in south-western Hungary in mid-2023.Archives of virology · 2024Article
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- Genetic Characteristics and Phylogeographic Dynamics of Echovirus.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2023Article
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Abstract
We describe an outbreak of echovirus 18 infection involving 10 patients in our neonatal intensive care unit (an attack rate of 33%). The mean age at the onset of illness was 26.8 days. Eighty percent were preterm infants. All were discharged home without sequelae. There were no differences in gestation age, birth weight, delivery mode, use of antibiotics, and parenteral nutrition between the enterovirus (EV) group and non-EV group, but the rate of breastfeeding was significantly higher in the EV group. Separation care and reinforcement of hand-washing seemed to be effective in preventing further spread of the virus. Visiting policy, hygiene practice, and handling of expressed breastmilk should be reinforced.
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