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Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1993;36(4):506-511. Published online April 15, 1993.

Aseptic Meningitis in 1991 - isolation of causative agent -

Yoon Ah YA Park¹, Eun Young EY Cho¹, Ki Soo KS Kim¹, Young Seo YS Park¹, Hyung Nam HN Moon¹, Chang Yee CY Hong¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

To know the causative agent of asptic meningitis, we performed blood and cerebrospinal fluid study on 24 children who had been admitted to the department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Reference Laboratory, Japan. The most of the patients were young infants, and 15 cases of them were under 3 months of age. The male to female ratio was 1:1.4. We observed the main symptoms as fever 100%, irritability 67%, vomiting 17%, poor feeding 13%, seizure 8%. In the 4 cases among the 10 cases with virus culture, Coxsackievirus B5 was cultured. We concluded that causative agent of this epidemic aseptic meningitis in 1991 was Coxsakievirus B5.

Keywords :Aseptic meningitis, Coxsackievirus B5