Population
23 children with neurologic symptoms associated with acute febrile illness
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May enhance enteroviral detection in pediatric CSF; leaves open clinical impact and causality in febrile neurologic illness.
PCR is more sensitive than cell culture for detecting enterovirus in the CSF of children with febrile neurologic complications, suggesting enteroviral infection is a common cause.
Hosoya et al. (1997) studied this question.