Clinical, Laboratory, and Molecular Epidemiology of an Outbreak of Aseptic Meningitis Due to a Triple-Recombinant Echovirus in Ashburton, New Zealand

Clinical, Laboratory, and Molecular Epidemiology of an Outbreak of Aseptic Meningitis Due to a Triple-Recombinant Echovirus in Ashburton, New Zealand

Here, we describe a small enterovirus outbreak including nine cases of aseptic meningitis in a New Zealand hospital in 2017. Most patients had a lymphocytic predominance in the CSF, their length of stay was short, and there were no paediatric cases or ICU admissions. VP1 genotyping revealed that the...

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Main Authors: Meik Dilcher, Julia C. Howard, Simon C. Dalton, Trevor Anderson, Richard T. Clinghan, Anja M. Werno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-03-01
Series:Viruses
Subjects:
enterovirus
meningitis
molecular epidemiology
recombination
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/4/658

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