Echovirus-7 Infection in Children with Unusual Severe Manifestation: A Case Report

Antonius Hocky Pudjiadi; Ungke Antonjaya; Khin Saw Myint; Fatima Safira Alatas

doi:10.3947/ic.2020.0081

Echovirus-7 Infection in Children with Unusual Severe Manifestation: A Case Report

Infect Chemother. 2021 Mar;53(1):141-145. doi: 10.3947/ic.2020.0081.

Authors

Antonius Hocky Pudjiadi¹, Ungke Antonjaya², Khin Saw Myint³, Fatima Safira Alatas⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Child-Health, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia. ahpudjiadi@gmail.com.
² Eijkman Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia.
³ Emerging Virus Research Unit, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia.
⁴ Department of Child-Health, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Abstract

We report a rare laboratory-confirmed, clinical case of Echovirus-7 infection in an immuno-competent child with central nervous system and systemic manifestation. Echovirus infection is usually mild, however in this case we identified echovirus-7 infection with 91% homology with the Echovirus-7 strain previously isolated in neighbouring country with severe manifestation.

Keywords: Echovirus-7; Encephalitis; Enterovirus; Sepsis; qRT-PCR.

Publication types

Case Reports