Shishov A S, Mitrophanova I V, Kirychenko T V, Boytsov M V
Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immuno-and-Biological Products of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Infectious Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow, Russia.
Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 2020;120(3):67-71. doi: 10.17116/jnevro202012003167.
To describe a rare case of enterovirus disease with meningitis in an infant.
Summary of medical records of the child and his mother were used.
The medical history, characteristics of the clinical picture, the composition of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for laboratory confirmed Coxsackie B with meningitis in the infant, aged 1 month, and his mother, 40 years old, the source of which were older children who had the infection in the form of a «minor illness», are presented. Enterovirus RNA was detected by PCR in pleocytosis 984/3 on the 4th (in a child) and cytosis 18/3 on the 5th day (in a mother) in the two-wave course of the disease. Data on clinical forms of enterovirus infection in children, aged 0-12 months, the frequency of cases and clinical signs of enterovirus meningitis in infants are considered.
