Parechovirus Meningoencephalitis in Infants

Deresinski, Stan MD, FACP, FIDSA

Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

Financial Disclosure: None of the planners of this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Infectious Disease Alert 41(12):p 133-134, September 2022.

SYNOPSIS: Parechovirus A3 is a leading cause of meningoencephalitis in infants.

SOURCES: Tao L, Fill MA, Banerjee R, Humphries RM. Notes from the Field: Cluster of parechovirus central nervous system infections in young infants — Tennessee, 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2022;71:977-978.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recent reports of human parechovirus (PeV) in the United States—2022. https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2022/han00469.asp