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Severe paediatric conditions linked with EV-A71 and EV-D68, France, May to October 2016
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsDenise Antonadenise.antona santepubliquefrance.fr
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Citation style for this article: . Severe paediatric conditions linked with EV-A71 and EV-D68, France, May to October 2016. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(46):pii=30402. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.46.30402 Received: 07 Nov 2016; Accepted: 17 Nov 2016
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.
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