Enteroviral meningitis outbreak, Kosovo, July-September 2006

Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak — Nigeria, July–September 2014

On July 20, 2014, an acutely ill traveler from Liberia arrived at the international airport in Lagos, Nigeria, and was confirmed to have Ebola virus disease (Ebola) after being admitted to a private hospital. This index patient potentially exposed 72 persons at the airport and the hospital. The Federal Ministry of Health, with guidance from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), declare...

AFCI Quarterly Input: UNLV July 1 through September 30, 2006

Transmission of Seasonal Outbreak of Childhood Enteroviral Aseptic Meningitis and Hand-foot-mouth Disease

This study was conducted to evaluate the modes of transmission of aseptic meningitis (AM) and hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) using a case-control and a case-crossover design. We recruited 205 childhood AM and 116 HFMD cases and 170 non-enteroviral disease controls from three general hospitals in Gyeongju, Pohang, and Seoul between May and August in both 2002 and 2003. For the case-crossover des...

Enteroviral meningitis without pleocytosis in children.

OBJECTIVES This study aims to describe the clinical characteristics of enteroviral meningitis in association with the absence of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis. DESIGN This was a retrospective analysis of databases of patients diagnosed with enteroviral meningitis by CSF reverse transcription-PCR testing. Presence of CSF non-pleocytosis at each age group was analysed by use of the two ...

Enteroviral meningitis does not exclude concurrent bacterial meningitis.

We read with interest the study of Nolte et al. (6) evaluating a completely automated enteroviral real-time PCR assay (EVPCR) with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Among 434 patients, 113 (26%) had enteroviral meningitis with no bacterial coinfection. Six patients had bacterial meningitis with EV-PCR-negative CSF. In accordance with the work of Nigrovic et al. (5), who found no bacterial coinfection ...