First epidemic of echovirus 16 meningitis in Cuba
(2001) In Emerging Infectious Diseases 7(5). p.887-889- Abstract
From April to September 2000, an epidemic of aseptic meningitis spread throughout Cuba, with 16,943 reported cases. Virologic studies identified echovirus 16 as the cause of this epidemic. This is the first reported isolate of echovirus 16 from patients with viral meningitis in Cuba.
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- author
- Sarmiento, L LU ; Mas, P ; Goyenechea, A ; Palomera, R ; Morier, L ; Capó, V ; Quintana, I and Santin, M
- publishing date
- 2001-12-19
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Adolescent, Adult, Age Distribution, Cerebrospinal Fluid/virology, Child, Child, Preschool, Cuba/epidemiology, Disease Outbreaks, Echovirus Infections/diagnosis, Enterovirus B, Human/classification, Feces/virology, Humans, Incidence, Infant, Meningitis, Aseptic/diagnosis, Meningitis, Viral/diagnosis, Middle Aged, RNA, Viral/analysis, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- in
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 887 - 889
- publisher
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- external identifiers
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- scopus:0035205211
- pmid:11747705
- ISSN
- 1080-6040
- DOI
- 10.3201/eid0705.017520
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 438dd877-c3d6-480c-8f32-abddd70fcf9d
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- 2019-07-08 15:08:09
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