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Severe and fatal neonatal infections linked to a new variant of echovirus 11, France, July 2022 to April 2023
- Mathilde Grapin1,* , Audrey Mirand2,3,* , Didier Pinquier4 , Aurélie Basset5 , Matthieu Bendavid1 , Maxime Bisseux2,3 , Marion Jeannoël6 , Bérengère Kireche7 , Manoelle Kossorotoff8 , Anne-Sophie L’Honneur9 , Lila Robin7 , Yves Ville10 , Sylvain Renolleau1 , Véronique Lemee11 , Pierre-Henri Jarreau5 , Isabelle Desguerre8 , Florence Lacaille12 , Marianne Leruez-Ville13 , Clémence Guillaume14 , Cécile Henquell2,3 , Alexandre Lapillonne15 , Isabelle Schuffenecker6,** , Mélodie Aubart8,16,**
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France 2 Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital, 3IHP - Infection Inflammation et Interaction Hôtes Pathogènes Virology Department, French Reference Centre for enteroviruses and parechovirus, coordination laboratory, Clermont-Ferrand, France 3 Auvergne University, LMGE UMR CNRS 6023, Team Epidemiology and pathophysiology of enterovirus Infection, Clermont-Ferrand, France 4 Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Units, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France 5 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Cochin-Port Royal University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France 6 Hospices Civils de Lyon, Virology Department, French Reference Centre for enteroviruses and parechoviruses, associated laboratory, Lyon, France 7 Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Units, Orléans Regional Hospital, Orléans, France 8 Paediatric Neurology Department, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France 9 Virology laboratory, Cochin University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France 10 Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine Department, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France 11 Virology Department, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France 12 Pediatric Gastroenterology-Hepatology-Nutrition Unit, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, University of Paris, Paris, France 13 Clinical Microbiology laboratory and Virology unit, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France 14 Orléans Hospital, Microbiology laboratory, Orléans, France 15 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France 16 Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Imagine Institute, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France * These authors contributed equally to the work and share the first authorship. ** These authors contributed equally to the work and share the last authorship.Mélodie AUBARTmelodie.aubart aphp.fr
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Citation style for this article: Grapin Mathilde, Mirand Audrey, Pinquier Didier, Basset Aurélie, Bendavid Matthieu, Bisseux Maxime, Jeannoël Marion, Kireche Bérengère, Kossorotoff Manoelle, L’Honneur Anne-Sophie, Robin Lila, Ville Yves, Renolleau Sylvain, Lemee Véronique, Jarreau Pierre-Henri, Desguerre Isabelle, Lacaille Florence, Leruez-Ville Marianne, Guillaume Clémence, Henquell Cécile, Lapillonne Alexandre, Schuffenecker Isabelle, Aubart Mélodie. Severe and fatal neonatal infections linked to a new variant of echovirus 11, France, July 2022 to April 2023. Euro Surveill. 2023;28(22):pii=2300253. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.22.2300253 Received: 17 May 2023; Accepted: 01 Jun 2023
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We report nine severe neonatal infections caused by a new variant of echovirus 11. All were male, eight were twins. At illness onset, they were 3–5 days-old and had severe sepsis and liver failure. This new variant, detected in France since April 2022, is still circulating and has caused more fatal neonatal enterovirus infections in 2022 and 2023 (8/496; 1.6%, seven associated with echovirus 11) compared with 2016 to 2021 (7/1,774; 0.4%). National and international alerts are warranted.
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