title: Prolonged Shedding of Human Parechovirus in Feces of Young Children after Symptomatic Infection.
abstract: After symptomatic human parechovirus (HPeV) infection in infants, the duration of (mostly asymptomatic) shedding in feces was 2-24 weeks (median 58 days). HPeV cycle threshold value could neither differentiate between symptomatic disease and asymptomatic shedding nor between severe and mild disease as high cycle threshold values (indicating low viral loads) were observed in HPeV3-infected children with severe disease.
authors: From the *Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, the Netherlands; †Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; ‡Department of Pediatrics, Amstelland Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors: Joanne G
authors: JG
authors: Wildenbeest
authors: Kimberley S M
authors: KS
authors: Benschop
authors: Saskia
authors: S
authors: Bouma-de Jongh
authors: Katja C
authors: KC
authors: Wolthers
authors: Dasja
authors: D
authors: Pajkrt
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005243:Feces / Q000821:virology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D030061:Parechovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010850:Picornaviridae Infections / Q000821:virology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors