First report of a Chinese strain of coxsackie B3 virus infection in a newborn in Germany in 2011: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Enteroviruses commonly encounter babies and children and infections present in a wide variety of symptoms ranging from asymptomatic infection, benign illness, and aseptic meningitis, hand-foot-and-mouth disease to severe life-threatening disease. Some newborns develop severe disease in the first 2 weeks of life and long-term sequelae may occur among survivors.

Case presentation

We present a case report of a Caucasian newborn baby boy with severe encephalitis and systemic coxsackievirus B3 infection. The coincidence of maternal infection as well as previous mild respiratory illness in his sister suggests either prenatal or horizontal postnatal transmission. An electroencephalogram showed a severe pathologic pattern with theta-delta-rhythm and spike-wave complexes

SUBMITTER: Ronellenfitsch S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4063248 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature