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Characteristics of young infants in whom human parechovirus, enterovirus or neither were detected in cerebrospinal fluid during sepsis evaluations.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal - 1 Mar 2013
Sharp Justin, Harrison Christopher J, Puckett Kelley, Selvaraju Suresh B, Penaranda Silvia, Nix W Allan, Oberste M Steven, Selvarangan Rangaraj
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Human parechovirus (HPeV) causes central nervous system (CNS) infection in infants. To further understand HPeV CNS infection, we describe its clinical, laboratory and epidemiologic characteristics from a Midwestern US tertiary care center. Because HPeV CNS infections have appeared clinically and seasonally similar to enterovirus (EV) infections, we retrospectively compared characteristics of young...
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