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Re-emergence of enterovirus D68 in Europe after easing the COVID-19 lockdown, September 2021
- Kimberley SM Benschop1 , Jan Albert2,3 , Andres Anton4 , Cristina Andrés4 , Maitane Aranzamendi5 , Brynja Armannsdóttir6 , Jean-Luc Bailly7,8 , Fausto Baldanti9,10 , Guðrún Erna Baldvinsdóttir6 , Stuart Beard11 , Natasa Berginc12 , Sindy Böttcher13 , Soile Blomqvist14 , Laura Bubba15 , Cristina Calvo16 , Maria Cabrerizo17 , Annalisa Cavallero18 , Cristina Celma11 , Ferruccio Ceriotti19 , Inês Costa20 , Simon Cottrell21 , Margarita del Cuerpo22 , Jonathan Dean23 , Jennifer L Dembinski24 , Sabine Diedrich13 , Javier Diez-Domingo25 , DagnyHaug Dorenberg24 , Erwin Duizer1 , Robert Dyrdak2,3 , Diana Fanti26 , Agnes Farkas27 , Susan Feeney28 , Jacky Flipse29 , Cillian De Gascun23 , Cristina Galli15 , Irina Georgieva30 , Laura Gifford21 , Raquel Guiomar20 , Mario Hönemann31 , Niina Ikonen14 , Marion Jeannoël32 , Laurence Josset32 , Kathrin Keeren33 , F Xavier López-Labrador25,34 , Melanie Maier31 , James McKenna28 , Adam Meijer1 , Beatriz Mengual-Chuliá25 , Sofie E Midgley35 , Audrey Mirand7,8 , Milagrosa Montes5 , Catherine Moore21 , Ursula Morley23 , Jean-Luc Murk36 , Lubomira Nikolaeva-Glomb30 , Sanela Numanovic24 , Massimo Oggioni19 , Paula Palminha20 , Elena Pariani15 , Laura Pellegrinelli15 , Antonio Piralla9 , Corinna Pietsch31 , Luis Piñeiro5 , Núria Rabella22 , Petra Rainetova37 , Sara Colonia Uceda Renteria19 , María P Romero15 , Marijke Reynders37 , Lieuwe Roorda39 , Carita Savolainen-Kopra14 , Isabelle Schuffenecker32 , Aysa Soynova30 , Caroline MA Swanink29 , Tina Ursic40 , Jaco J Verweij36 , Jorgina Vila41 , Tytti Vuorinen42 , Peter Simmonds43 , Thea K Fischer44,45,* , Heli Harvala46,47,*
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Center for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Respiratory Virus Unit, Microbiology Department, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain 5 Microbiology Department, Donostia University Hospital and Biodonostia Health Research Institute, San Sebastián, Spain 6 Landspitali-National University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland 7 CHU Clermont-Ferrand, National Reference Centre for enteroviruses and parechoviruses – Associated laboratory, Clermont-Ferrand, France 8 Université d’Auvergne, LMGE UMR CNRS 6023, Equipe EPIE - Epidémiologie et physiopathologie des infections à entérovirus, Faculté de Médecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France 9 Microbiology and Virology Department, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Italy 10 Department of Clinical Surgical Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy 11 UK Health Security Agency, Colindale, United Kingdom 12 National laboratory of health, environment and food, Laboratory for public health virology, Ljubljana, Slovenia 13 National Reference Center for Poliomyelitis and Enteroviruses, Robert-Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany 14 National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland 15 Department of Biomedical Sciences of Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy 16 Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain 17 National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Enterovirus and Viral Gastroenteritis Unit/Polio National Lab, Madrid, Spain 18 Laboratory of Microbiology, ASST Monza, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza (MB), Italy 19 Virology Unit, Division of Clinical Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy 20 National Institute of Health (INSA), Lisbon, Portugal 21 Public Health Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom 22 Microbiology Department Hospital Universitari de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 23 National Virus Reference Laboratory, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 24 Department of Virology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway 25 Center for Public Health Research (FISABIO-Public Health), Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain 26 Chemical-clinical and Microbiological Analyses, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy 27 National Public Health Center, Budapest, Hungary 28 Regional Virus Laboratory, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom 29 Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Rijnstate, Velp, the Netherlands 30 National Reference Laboratory for Enteroviruses, National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria 31 Institute of Medical Microbiology and Virology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 32 National Reference Center for Enteroviruses and Parechoviruses, Institut des Agents Infectieux, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France 33 Secretary of the commission for Polio Eradication in Germany, Robert-Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany 34 CIBERESP, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain 35 The Danish WHO National Reference Laboratory for Poliovirus, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark 36 Elisabeth Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands 37 National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic 38 Laboratory Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, AZ St.Jan Brugge-Oostende AV, Bruges, Belgium 39 Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 40 Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia 41 Pediatric Hospitalization Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain 42 Clinical Microbiology, Turku University Hospital and Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland 43 University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 44 University of Sothern Denmark, Odense, Denmark 45 Nordsjaellands Hospital, Hillerod, Denmark 46 NHS Blood and Transplant, Microbiology Services, Colindale, United Kingdom 47 University College London (UCL), Department of infection and Immunity, London, United Kingdom* These authors contributed equally and share last authorship.Correspondence:Kimberley S.M. Benschopkim.benschop rivm.nl
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Citation style for this article: Benschop Kimberley SM, Albert Jan, Anton Andres, Andrés Cristina, Aranzamendi Maitane, Armannsdóttir Brynja, Bailly Jean-Luc, Baldanti Fausto, Baldvinsdóttir Guðrún Erna, Beard Stuart, Berginc Natasa, Böttcher Sindy, Blomqvist Soile, Bubba Laura, Calvo Cristina, Cabrerizo Maria, Cavallero Annalisa, Celma Cristina, Ceriotti Ferruccio, Costa Inês, Cottrell Simon, del Cuerpo Margarita, Dean Jonathan, Dembinski Jennifer L, Diedrich Sabine, Diez-Domingo Javier, Dorenberg DagnyHaug, Duizer Erwin, Dyrdak Robert, Fanti Diana, Farkas Agnes, Feeney Susan, Flipse Jacky, De Gascun Cillian, Galli Cristina, Georgieva Irina, Gifford Laura, Guiomar Raquel, Hönemann Mario, Ikonen Niina, Jeannoël Marion, Josset Laurence, Keeren Kathrin, López-Labrador F Xavier, Maier Melanie, McKenna James, Meijer Adam, Mengual-Chuliá Beatriz, Midgley Sofie E, Mirand Audrey, Montes Milagrosa, Moore Catherine, Morley Ursula, Murk Jean-Luc, Nikolaeva-Glomb Lubomira, Numanovic Sanela, Oggioni Massimo, Palminha Paula, Pariani Elena, Pellegrinelli Laura, Piralla Antonio, Pietsch Corinna, Piñeiro Luis, Rabella Núria, Rainetova Petra, Uceda Renteria Sara Colonia, Romero María P, Reynders Marijke, Roorda Lieuwe, Savolainen-Kopra Carita, Schuffenecker Isabelle, Soynova Aysa, Swanink Caroline MA, Ursic Tina, Verweij Jaco J, Vila Jorgina, Vuorinen Tytti, Simmonds Peter, Fischer Thea K, Harvala Heli. Re-emergence of enterovirus D68 in Europe after easing the COVID-19 lockdown, September 2021. Euro Surveill. 2021;26(45):pii=2100998. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.45.2100998 Received: 21 Oct 2021; Accepted: 09 Nov 2021
Abstract
We report a rapid increase in enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) infections, with 139 cases reported from eight European countries between 31 July and 14 October 2021. This upsurge is in line with the seasonality of EV-D68 and was presumably stimulated by the widespread reopening after COVID-19 lockdown. Most cases were identified in September, but more are to be expected in the coming months. Reinforcement of clinical awareness, diagnostic capacities and surveillance of EV-D68 is urgently needed in Europe.
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