[Intrahospital outbreak of enterovirus encephalitis]

The authors examined 9 children aged from 13 months to 9 years who, while being in a general hospital, contracted enteroviral encephalitis induced by Coxsackie B3 virus with a possible involvement of Coxsackie B1 virus. This report on a group hospital outbreak of enteroviral encephalitis appears to be the first of the kind in the available literature. The authors discuss the possibility of enteroviral encephalitis and Economo's encephalitis being identical in nature.