Clinical Analysis of Aseptic Meningitis Caused by Echovirus 13

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  • エコーウイルス 13型無菌性髄膜炎の臨床的検討
  • エコーウイルス 13ガタ ムキンセイ ズイマクエン ノ リンショウテキ ケントウ

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Abstract

We examined the clinical symptoms and laboratory findings of 21 children with aseptic meningitis caused by echovirus 13 during the summer of 2002.<BR>All patients (mean age: 8.3 years) complained of fever and headache. Some had mild vomiting and some had severe vomiting of 4 times or more. In the early stage of the disease, the mean count of WBC was 8, 283/μl, mean level of CRP was 0.8mg/dl, and there were no abnormalities in levels of GOT, GPT, or LDH. The levels of protein and sugar, in cerebrospinal fluid showed no abnormalities, and mean total cell count was 560/μl. The mean number of polynuclear cells was 357/μl, and of mononuclear cells was 203/μl, showing polynuclear cell predominance. In the recovery period, the tendency to polynuclear cell predominance in the early stage of the disease shifted to mononuclear predominance. One of the 21 patients exhibited multinucleated cell predominancein the cerebrospinal fluid, a high CRP value of 6.2mg/dl, as well as symptoms of restlessness including numbness of the limbs, hyperpnea, and excitation, needed careful diagnosis as aseptic meningitis. Almost all of the patients were mild cases, and no large differences were seen with the clinical and laboratory findings in previous reports of echovirus aseptic meningitis.

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  • Kansenshogaku Zasshi

    Kansenshogaku Zasshi 77 (9), 673-676, 2003

    The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases

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