title: [Echovirus type 13 meningitis: admissions to a paediatric ward at a Lisbon hospital].
abstract: Infections by echovirus 13 are rare. In our country, it had not been previously reported any infection of this sort until 2000, when eleven echovirus 13 meningitis were observed in the Department of Pediatrics of the Hospital Fernando Fonseca. In England and Spain outbreaks of echovirus 13 meningitis during 2000 was also reported. Based on these facts the authors make an epidemiological analyses of their series.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Pediatria. Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Amadora.
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Correia
authors.forename: M João
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Brito
authors.forename: Helena R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Andrade
authors.forename: Conceição
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Neves
authors.forename: Gonçalo N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Cordeiro Ferreira
authors.forename: Elsa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Reis Vasco
authors.forename: Maria Céu
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Machado
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004457:Echovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D029822:Enterovirus B, Human; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006786:Hospitals, Urban; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008587:Meningitis, Viral / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011174:Portugal; D012189:Retrospective Studies