Continued seasonal circulation of enterovirus D68 in the Netherlands, 2011-2014

A Meijer; K S Benschop; G A Donker; H G van der Avoort

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.42.20935

Continued seasonal circulation of enterovirus D68 in the Netherlands, 2011-2014

Euro Surveill. 2014 Oct 23;19(42):20935. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.42.20935.

Authors

A Meijer¹, K S Benschop, G A Donker, H G van der Avoort

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Diagnostics and Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.

PMID: 25358039
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.42.20935

Abstract

Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) continued to circulate in a seasonal pattern in the Netherlands, after the outbreak in 2010. Outpatient EV-D68 cases, mainly in the under 20 and 50–59 years age groups, presented with relatively mild respiratory disease. Hospital-based enterovirus surveillance identified more severe cases, mainly in children under 10 years of age. Dutch partial VP1 genomic region sequences from 2012 through 2014 were distributed over three sublineages similar to EV-D68 from the outbreak in the US in 2014.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
Child
Child, Preschool
Disease Outbreaks
Enterovirus D, Human / classification*
Enterovirus D, Human / genetics
Enterovirus D, Human / isolation & purification*
Enterovirus Infections / epidemiology
Enterovirus Infections / virology*
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infant
Male
Middle Aged
Netherlands / epidemiology
Phylogeny
Respiratory Tract Infections / epidemiology
Respiratory Tract Infections / virology
Retrospective Studies
Seasons
Sentinel Surveillance*
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Sex Distribution
Young Adult