Giacomo Brisca, Tommaso Bellini, Mattia Pasquinucci, Marcello Mariani, Marta Romanengo, Isabella Buffoni, Domenico Tortora, Alessandro Parodi, Elena Fueri, Alessio Mesini, Jessica Tibaldi, Emanuela Piccotti, Luca Antonio Ramenghi, Andrea Moscatelli
Parechovirus (HpEV) and Enterovirus (EV) infections in children mostly have a mild course but are particularly fearsome in newborns in whom they may cause aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, and myocarditis. Our study aimed to describe the clinical presentations and peculiarities of CNS infection by HpEV and EV in neonates. This is a single-center retrospective study at Istituto Gaslini, Genoa, Italy. Infants aged ≤ 30 days with a CSF RTq-PCR positive for EV or HpEV from January 1, 2022, to December 1, 2023, were enrolled...
March 16, 2024: European Journal of Pediatrics