Striking Decrease of Enteroviral Meningitis in Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic

We report the unprecedented complete absence of pediatric enteroviral meningitis in 2020 in the area of Bern, Switzerland. Presumably an unintended effect of coronavirus disease 2019 public health measures, this finding highlights the potential of community-wide nonpharmaceutical interventions for c...

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Autores principales: Stoffel, Larissa, Agyeman, Philipp K A, Keitel, Kristina, Barbani, Maria Teresa, Duppenthaler, Andrea, Kopp, Matthias V, Aebi, Christoph
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8083471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34183977
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab115
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Agyeman, Philipp K A
Keitel, Kristina
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Duppenthaler, Andrea
Kopp, Matthias V
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spelling pubmed-80834712021-05-03 Striking Decrease of Enteroviral Meningitis in Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic Stoffel, Larissa Agyeman, Philipp K A Keitel, Kristina Barbani, Maria Teresa Duppenthaler, Andrea Kopp, Matthias V Aebi, Christoph Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports We report the unprecedented complete absence of pediatric enteroviral meningitis in 2020 in the area of Bern, Switzerland. Presumably an unintended effect of coronavirus disease 2019 public health measures, this finding highlights the potential of community-wide nonpharmaceutical interventions for controlling the circulation of a major pediatric pathogen, which is mainly transmitted by the fecal–oral route. Oxford University Press 2021-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8083471/ /pubmed/34183977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab115 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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