[Enterovirus meningitis in a child of one month in source of infection].

OBJECTIVE

To describe a rare case of enterovirus disease with meningitis in an infant.

MATERIAL AND

METHODS

Summary of medical records of the child and his mother were used.

RESULTS AND

CONCLUSION

The medical history, characteristics of the clinical picture, the composition of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for laboratory confirmed Coxsackie B1-6 with meningitis in the infant, aged 1 month, and his mother, 40 years old, the source of which were older children who had the infection in the form of a «minor illness», are presented. Enterovirus RNA was detected by PCR in pleocytosis 984/3 on the 4th (in a child) and cytosis 18/3 on the 5th day (in a mother) in the two-wave course of the disease. Data on clinical forms of enterovirus infection in children, aged 0-12 months, the frequency of cases and clinical signs of enterovirus meningitis in infants are considered.