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Enterovirus Infections in the Neonate

Department of Virology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Peter J. Middleton

Department of Virology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A chart review was made of 24 neonates less than one month of age with culture-proven enteroviral infection. The seasonal distribution was summer and fall. An antecedent illness was common in the mother or other family members. One patient had a mild gastroenteritis.

Three categories of severe disease were noted: (a) meningitis accounted for 50 per cent of the illnesses; (b) myocarditis for 25 per cent of the illnesses; and (c) the remainder presented with a severe sepsis-like illness.

High mortality rate was associated with low birth weight and low gestational age.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 22, No. 2, 87-92 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288302200201


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