Background:
@EN Acute aseptic meningitis is a relatively common illness caused by a large number of different factors. Virus is the most common cause of aseptic meningitis.
@ES Methods:
@EN To identify the causative agent of aseptic meningitis, we performed clinical and virological studies on 346 children with aseptic meningitis who had been admitted to the department of Pediatrics, Chungang Gil Hospital from May, to September,
1993,
In 56 cases of them, CSF virus cuiture was done at Special Reference Laboratory, Japan.
@ES Results:
@EN 1) The majority of the patients were between the ages of 1 to 5.
2) The male to female ratio was 2.1: 1.
3) The main symptoms were fever (98.8%), headache (89.6%), vomiting (88.4%), and abdominal pain(23.7%).
4) All were recovered without special neurological sequelae.
5) In the 11 cases among the 56 cases Coxsackievirus B5 was cultured and in 7 cases of them Enterovirus 71 was cultured.
@ES Conclusion:
@EN We concluded that the causative agents of the outbreak of aseptic meningitis in the reviewed hospital in 1993 were both Coxsackievirus B5 and Enterovirus 71.
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