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Fulminant echovirus 11 hepatitis in male non-identical twins in northern Italy, April 2023
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsFausto Baldantif.baldanti smatteo.pv.it
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Citation style for this article: . Fulminant echovirus 11 hepatitis in male non-identical twins in northern Italy, April 2023. Euro Surveill. 2023;28(24):pii=2300289. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.24.2300289 Received: 08 Jun 2023; Accepted: 14 Jun 2023
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Abstract
Echovirus 11 (E11) has recently been associated with a series of nine neonatal cases of severe hepatitis in France. Here, we present severe hepatitis caused by E11 in a pair of twins. In one of the neonates, the clinical picture evolved to fulminant hepatitis. The E11 genome showed 99% nucleotide identity with E11 strains reported in the cases in France. Rapid genome characterisation using next generation sequencing is essential to identify new and more pathogenetic variants.
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