title: Echovirus 18 meningitis in southern Taiwan.
abstract: Eighty cases of echovirus 18 infection among young children during an outbreak in 2006 in Taiwan were enrolled. Twenty percent of the patients had a comorbid condition. Twenty-five cases (31%) were complicated by aseptic meningitis. The most frequent diagnoses in children without meningitis were pharyngitis/tonsillitis (35%) and vesicular viral exanthem (33%). The case-fatality rate among the children with meningitis was 4%. Echovirus 18 was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid of 68% of the children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Tainan City, Taiwan, Republic of China. edwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw
authors.forename: Shih-Min
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Tzong-Shiann
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Ching-Fen
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Jen-Ren
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ching-Chuan
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D029822:Enterovirus B, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004769:Enterovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D005076:Exanthema / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008587:Meningitis, Viral / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D010612:Pharyngitis / Q000821:virology; D018805:Sepsis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology; D014069:Tonsillitis / Q000382:microbiology