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Volume 25, Number 7—July 2019
Dispatch

Epidemiology of Human Parechovirus Type 3 Upsurge in 2 Hospitals, Freiburg, Germany, 2018

Roland Elling1, Sindy Böttcher1, Florian du Bois, Alexandra Müller, Christiane Prifert, Benedikt Weissbrich, Jörg Hofmann, Klaus Korn, Anna-Maria Eis-Hübinger, Markus Hufnagel, and Marcus PanningComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Medical Center–University of Freiburg Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany (R. Elling, F. du Bois, A. Müller, M. Hufnagel, M. Panning); Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany (S. Böttcher); University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (C. Prifert, B. Weissbrich); Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin (J. Hofmann); Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany (K. Korn); University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany (A.-M. Eis-Hübinger)

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Table 2

Clinical symptoms of human parechovirus cases in Freiburg, Germany, January–September 2018*

Clinical signs and symptoms No. (%) positive patients
HPeV-1, n = 2 HPeV-3, n = 21 HPeV-5, n = 2
Fever 1 (50) 21 (100) 2 (100)
Poor feeding 1 (50) 16 (76) 1 (50)
Irritability 0 13 (62) 1 (50)
Rash 1 (50) 6 (29) 1 (50)
Diarrhea 1 (50) 5 (24) 0
Respiratory distress 0 5 (24) 0
Vomiting 1 (50) 0 0

*HPeV, human parechovirus

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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