September 14, 2001BMC Infectious DiseasesOpen Access

Aseptic meningitis in Germany associated with echovirus type 13

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Population

55 isolates of echovirus type 13 obtained from patients with aseptic meningitis in different parts of…

Comparison

Sequence analysis of a part of VP1 (~300 nt) vs Elder viruses

Authors

SDSabine DiedrichUniversity of Crete ESE. SchreierRobert Koch Institute

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Implication

Should not yet change aseptic meningitis management; extends molecular epidemiology of echovirus 13.

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Population

55 isolates of echovirus type 13 obtained from patients with aseptic meningitis in different parts of Germany in 2000.

Intervention

Sequence analysis of a part of VP1 (~300 nt)

Comparator

Elder viruses (prototype strain from 1953, four isolates from 1965-1986)

Outcome

Genetic relationship and homology on the nucleotide level

Echovirus type 13 isolates from the 2000 aseptic meningitis outbreak in Germany showed high homology to each other but significant molecular drift from older strains.

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Diedrich et al. (2001) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a89423ba4df84145ecafc48 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-1-14

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Aseptic meningitis in Germany associated with echovirus type 13

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Structured PICO

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Aseptic meningitis in Germany associated with echovirus type 13

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Implication

Structured PICO

Cite This Study

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