ECHOVIRUS 18 MENINGITIS IN SOUTHERN TAIWAN

作者:Wang Shih Min; Ho Tzong Shiann; Shen Ching Fen; Wang Jen Ren; Liu Ching Chuan*
来源:Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2011, 30(3): 259-260.
DOI:10.1097/INF.0b013e3181f7cb69

摘要

Eighty cases of echovirus 18 infection among young children during an outbreak in 2006 in Taiwan were enrolled. Twenty percent of the patients had a comorbid condition. Twenty-five cases (31%) were complicated by aseptic meningitis. The most frequent diagnoses in children without meningitis were pharyngitis/tonsillitis (35%) and vesicular viral exanthem (33%). The case-fatality rate among the children with meningitis was 4%. Echovirus 18 was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid of 68% of the children.

  • 出版日期2011-3