Parechovirus Genotype 3 Outbreak among Infants, New South Wales, Australia, 2013–2014

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Cumming, Germaine ; Khatami, Ameneh ; McMullan, Brendan J. ; Musto, Jennie ; Leung, Kit ; Nguyen, Oanh ; Ferson, Mark J. ; Papadakis, Georgina ; Sheppeard, Vicky
• Description:
  From October 2013 through February 2014, human parechovirus genotype 3 infection was identified in 183 infants in New South Wales, Australia. Of those infants, 57% were male and 95% required hospitalization. Common signs and symptoms were fever >38°C (86%), irritability (80%), tachycardia (68%), and rash (62%). Compared with affected infants in the Northern Hemisphere, infants in New South Wales were slightly older, both sexes were affected more equally, and rash occurred with considerably higher frequency. The New South Wales syndromic surveillance system, which uses near real-time emergency department and ambulance data, was useful for monitoring the outbreak. An alert distributed to clinicians reduced unnecessary hospitalization for patients with suspected sepsis.
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks Epidemiological Monitoring Female Genes, Viral Genotype Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Male Molecular Diagnostic Techniques Parechovirus Picornaviridae Infections Research

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 21(7):1144-1152
• Pubmed ID:
  26082289
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4480380
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New South Wales, Australia
• Location:
  Oceania ; Europe ; North America
• Volume:
  21
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:13c467d93e1d07da46fb1e6df69555c95f7f3b01a7757e321cced9186c56893f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/31822/cdc_31822_DS1.pdf
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