Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of infants admitted to hospital due to human parechovirus infections: A prospective study in Spain

• Main Authors: Fernando Martín del Valle (Author), Cristina Calvo (Author), Inés Martinez-Rienda (Author), Amaia Cilla (Author), María P. Romero (Author), Ana Isabel Menasalvas (Author), Leticia Reis-Iglesias (Author), Diana Roda (Author), María J. Pena (Author), Nuria Rabella (Author), María del Mar Portugués de la Red (Author), Gregoria Megías (Author), Antonio Moreno-Docón (Author), Almudena Otero (Author), María Cabrerizo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Human parechovirus (HPeV) is one of the recently described picornaviridae viruses that have been associated with fever without source (FWS), clinical sepsis, gastroenteritis, meningitis, or encephalitis in very young infants. The aim of this study is to describe the epidemiology and cl...