O.5.4 Comparison of human parechovirus and enterovirus detection frequencies in central nervous system related disease – identification of a specifically neuropathogenic HPeV type

Comparison of human parechovirus and ent

Comparison of human parechovirus and enterovirus detection frequencies in cerebrospinal fluid samples collected over a 5-year period in edinburgh: HPeV type 3 identified as the most common picornavirus type

✍ Heli Harvala; Nigel McLeish; Jasmina Kondracka; Chloe L. McIntyre; E. Carol McWi 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 335 KB

## Abstract Human enteroviruses (EVs) and more recently parechoviruses (HPeVs) have been identified as the principal viral causes of neonatal sepsis‐like disease and meningitis. The relative frequencies of specific EV and HPeV types were determined over a 5‐year surveillance period using highly sen