TY - JOUR AU - Cumming, Germaine AU - Khatami, Ameneh AU - McMullan, Brendan AU - Musto, Jennie AU - Leung, Kit AU - Nguyen, Oanh AU - Ferson, Mark AU - Papadakis, Georgina AU - Sheppeard, Vicky T1 - Parechovirus Genotype 3 Outbreak among Infants, New South Wales, Australia, 2013–2014 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2015 VL - 21 IS - 7 SP - 1144 SN - 1080-6059 AB - From October 2013 through February 2014, human parechovirus genotype 3 infection was identified in 183 infants in New South Wales, Australia. Of those infants, 57% were male and 95% required hospitalization. Common signs and symptoms were fever >38°C (86%), irritability (80%), tachycardia (68%), and rash (62%). Compared with affected infants in the Northern Hemisphere, infants in New South Wales were slightly older, both sexes were affected more equally, and rash occurred with considerably higher frequency. The New South Wales syndromic surveillance system, which uses near real-time emergency department and ambulance data, was useful for monitoring the outbreak. An alert distributed to clinicians reduced unnecessary hospitalization for patients with suspected sepsis. KW - human parechovirus 3, piconarvirus KW - infantile fever, neonatal infection, sepsis-like syndrome, skin rash, emerging infectious disease, public health surveillance, viruses, New South Wale KW - human parechovirus 3 KW - piconarvirus KW - infantile fever KW - neonatal infection KW - sepsis-like syndrome KW - skin rash KW - public health surveillance KW - viruses KW - New South Wales KW - Australia DO - 10.3201/eid2107.141149 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/7/14-1149_article ER - End of Reference