ECHO 11 was identified as the primary viral agent in an outbreak of aseptic meningitis, particularly causing clinical symptoms in children over 5 years of age.
Clinicians should consider age-stratified ECHO 11 testing in aseptic meningitis outbreaks; extends surveillance data but leaves causal inference open.
In a study of an outbreak of aseptic meningitis, ECHO 11 was the most prevalent virus isolated (24 of 52 isolations). Other enteroviruses associated with cases in the outbreak but to a lesser degree were ECHO 4 and polioviruses 1 and 3. Children over 5 years of age infected with ECHO 11 were more apt to have clinical symptoms of aseptic meningitis than younger children.
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