Careful Clinical Surveillance Is Important for the Identification of Parechovirus Type A3-Associated Myalgia/Myositis: a Sporadic Case Found in a Season with a Low Level of Its Activity in Yamagata, Japan in 2017

Jpn J Infect Dis. 2019 Jan 23;72(1):71-72. doi: 10.7883/yoken.JJID.2018.341. Epub 2018 Nov 30.

Authors

Shizuka Tanaka¹, Dai Sendo², Mayumi Ichikawa³, Kentaro Toyota², Masayuki Furuyama², Kenichi Komabayashi¹, Tatsuya Ikeda¹, Katsumi Mizuta¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Yamagata Prefectural Institute of Public Health.
² Department of Pediatrics, Okitama Public General Hospital.
³ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Okitama Public General Hospital.

PMID: 30504645
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.JJID.2018.341

No abstract available

Keywords: PeVA3; parechovirus type A3; parechovirus type A3-associated myalgia/myositis; surveillance.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Child
Female
Humans
Inflammation
Japan / epidemiology
Myalgia / virology*
Myositis / virology*
Parechovirus / isolation & purification*
Picornaviridae Infections / diagnosis*
Picornaviridae Infections / epidemiology
Seasons