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SUBMITTER: Taravilla CN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6302576 | biostudies-other | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Taravilla Carmen Niño CN Pérez-Sebastián Isabel I Salido Alberto García AG Serrano Claudia Varela CV Extremera Verónica Cantarín VC Rodríguez Anna Duat AD Marín Laura López LL Sanz Mercedes Alonso MA Traba Olga María Suárez OMS González Ana Serrano AS
Emerging infectious diseases 20190101 1
We conducted an observational study from January 2016 through January 2017 of patients admitted to a reference pediatric hospital in Madrid, Spain, for neurologic symptoms and enterovirus infection. Among the 30 patients, the most common signs and symptoms were fever, lethargy, myoclonic jerks, and ataxia. Real-time PCR detected enterovirus in the cerebrospinal fluid of 8 patients, nasopharyngeal aspirate in 17, and anal swab samples of 5. The enterovirus was genotyped for 25 of 30 patients; ent ...[more]