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A Murine Model of Dengue Virus-induced Acute Viral Encephalitis-like Disease
Published on: April 28, 2019
Echovirus 18 meningitis in southern Taiwan
Shih-Min Wang1, Tzong-Shiann Ho, Ching-Fen Shen
1Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan City, Taiwan, Republic of China. edwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Abstract:
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.
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