Volume 16, Number 11?November 2010
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Enterovirus 75 Encephalitis in Children, Southern India
Penny Lewthwaite, Comments to Author David Perera, Mong How Ooi, Anna Last, Ravi Kumar, Anita Desai, Ashia Begum, Vasanthapuram Ravi, M. Veera Shankar, Phaik Hooi Tio, Mary Jane Cardosa, and Tom Solomon
Author affiliations: University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (P. Lewthwaite, M.H. Ooi, A. Last, T. Solomon); Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia (D. Perera, M.H. Ooi, P.H. Tio, M.J. Cardosa); Sibu Hospital, Sibu, Sarawak (M.H. Ooi); Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Karnataka, India (R. Kumar, A. Begum, M. Veera Shankar); and National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences, Bangalore, India (R. Kumar, A. Desai, V. Ravi)
Abstract
Recent outbreaks of enterovirus in Southeast Asia emphasize difficulties in diagnosis of this infection. To address this issue, we report 5 (4.7%) children infected with enterovirus 75 among 106 children with acute encephalitis syndrome during 2005?2007 in southern India. Throat swab specimens may be useful for diagnosis of enterovirus 75 infection.
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Lewthwaite P, Perera D, Ooi MH, Last A, Kumar R, Desai A, et al. Enterovirus 75 encephalitis in children, southern India. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2010 Nov [date cited]. http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/16/11/1780.htm
DOI: 10.3201/eid1611.100672
