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Human parechovirus-3 meningitis linked to severe long-term neurodevelopmental sequelae in a 5-year-old boy.
Highlights the potential for severe long-term neurodevelopmental consequences following human parechovirus-3 meningitis in children.
May warrant long-term neurodevelopmental surveillance after neonatal HPeV-3 meningitis; leaves open population-level risk and predictors.
Human parechovirus infections usually cause mild symptoms in children. Although their contribution to severe disease in young children-such as neonatal sepsis and meningoencephalitis-is increasingly recognized, data on long-term consequences are scarce. Here we present the case of a 5-year-old boy with severe long-term neurodevelopmental sequelae after human parechovirus-3 meningitis.
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Berk et al. (2018) studied this question. Human parechovirus-3 meningitis resulted in severe long-term neurodevelopmental sequelae in a 5-year-old boy.
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