TY - JOUR AU - Bispo de Filippis, Ana Maria AU - Baumgarte, Sigrid AU - Eschbach-Bludau, Monika AU - Simon, Arne AU - Kemen, Christoph AU - Bode, Udo AU - Eis-Hübinger, Anna-Maria AU - Madea, Burkhard AU - Drosten, Christian T1 - Human Cardioviruses, Meningitis, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Children T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 12 SP - 2313 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Cardioviruses cause myocarditis and encephalomyelitis in rodents; human cardioviruses have not been ascribed to any disease. We screened 6,854 cerebrospinal fluid and 10 myocardium specimens from children and adults. A genotype 2 cardiovirus was detected from a child who died of sudden infant death syndrome, and 2 untypeable cardioviruses were detected from 2 children with meningitis. KW - KW - Picornaviridae infections KW - human cardiovirus KW - Germany KW - communicable diseases KW - meningitis KW - children KW - real-time RT-PCR KW - sudden infant death syndrome KW - viruses DO - 10.3201/eid1712.111037 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/12/11-1037_article ER - End of Reference