This report highlights a potential association between ECHO 11 virus infection and the development of neonatal myocarditis during a nursery outbreak.
Alerts nurseries to myocarditis risk during ECHO 11 outbreaks; leaves open causal link, requiring prospective confirmation.
An outbreak involving 9 proven cases of ECHO II Virus infection in a neonatal nursery containing 20 infants is recorded. The modes of presentation and the short term prognosis are discussed. The possible association with neonatal myocarditis in 5 infants is presented.
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