Severe and fatal neonatal infections linked to a new variant of echovirus 11, France, July 2022 to April 2023

Affiliations

• ¹ Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France.
• ² These authors contributed equally to the work and share the first authorship.
• ³ Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital, 3IHP - Infection Inflammation et Interaction Hôtes Pathogènes Virology Department, French Reference Centre for enteroviruses and parechovirus, coordination laboratory, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• ⁴ Auvergne University, LMGE UMR CNRS 6023, Team Epidemiology and pathophysiology of enterovirus Infection, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• ⁵ Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Units, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France.
• ⁶ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Cochin-Port Royal University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France.
• ⁷ Hospices Civils de Lyon, Virology Department, French Reference Centre for enteroviruses and parechoviruses, associated laboratory, Lyon, France.
• ⁸ Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Units, Orléans Regional Hospital, Orléans, France.
• ⁹ Paediatric Neurology Department, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France.
• ¹⁰ Virology laboratory, Cochin University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France.
• ¹¹ Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine Department, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France.
• ¹² Virology Department, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France.
• ¹³ Pediatric Gastroenterology-Hepatology-Nutrition Unit, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, University of Paris, Paris, France.
• ¹⁴ Clinical Microbiology laboratory and Virology unit, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France.
• ¹⁵ Orléans Hospital, Microbiology laboratory, Orléans, France.
• ¹⁶ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Cité University, Paris, France.
• ¹⁷ These authors contributed equally to the work and share the last authorship.
• ¹⁸ Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Imagine Institute, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France.