Enterovirus Meningitis in Adults: A Prospective Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study

Jacob Bodilsen1, Helene Mens2, Sofie Midgley2

  • 1From the Department of Infectious Diseases (J.B.), Aalborg University Hospital; Department of Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases (H.M., C.T.B., P.T.P.), Nordsjællands Hospital, Hillerød; Department of Infectious Diseases (H.M., J.H.-L.), Rigshospitalet; Virology Surveillance and Research Section (S.M.), Department of Microbiological Diagnostics and Virology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen; Department of Infectious Diseases (L.L.), Odense University Hospital; Department of Infectious Diseases (B.R.H.), Hvidovre University Hospital; Department of Clinical Microbiology (C.Ø.), Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager and Hvidovre; Department of Infectious Diseases (H.R.L.), Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev and Gentofte,; Department of Medicine (L.W.), Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde; Department of Infectious Diseases (M.S.), Aarhus University Hospital; and Departments of Infectious Diseases (H.N.) and Clinical Medicine (H.N.), Aalborg University, Denmark. jacob.bodilsen@rn.dk.

Neurology
|June 5, 2021
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