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Severe paediatric conditions linked with EV-A71 and EV-D68, France, May to October 2016
Denise Antona1, Manoëlle Kossorotoff2, Isabelle Schuffenecker3
1Direction des maladies infectieuses, Santé publique France, Saint-Maurice, France.
Abstract:
We report 59 cases of severe paediatric conditions linked with enterovirus (EV)-A71 and EV-D68 in France between May and October 2016. Fifty-two children had severe neurological symptoms. EV sequence-based typing for 42 cases revealed EV-A71 in 21 (18 subgenotype C1, detected for the first time in France) and EV-D68 in eight. Clinicians should be encouraged to obtain stool and respiratory specimens from patients presenting with severe neurological disorders for EV detection and characterisation.
