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Does EV-positive meningitis have a different clinical course compared to EV-negative meningitis?
Does EV-positive meningitis have a different clinical course compared to EV-negative meningitis?
Echovirus-positive meningitis tends to affect younger patients and has a more benign clinical course than EV-negative cases.
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May aid age-based risk stratification in meningitis; observational data leave management implications open pending prospective validation.
Voluntary syndromic surveillance, such as provided by the EVSurv in our study may be a valuable tool for epidemiological research. Our analyses suggest that EV-positive meningitis predominantly affects younger patients and may be associated with a rather benign clinical course, compared to EV-negative cases.
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Graf et al. (2019) studied this question.
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