SEROUS MENINGITIS CAUSED BY ECHOAND COXSACKIE-VIRUSES

Abstract

The paper presents the results of a study of serous meningitis associated with enteroviruses.A comparative analysis of clinical symptoms and laboratory parameters of enterovirus meningitis caused by ECHO and Coxsackie viruses in 210 children aged 3 to 7 years was conducted based on the materials of the infectious diseases department of the A.K.Piotrovich Children's Regional Clinical Hospital in Khabarovsk.Our comparative analysis of clinical and laboratory parameters in children with ECHO and Coxsackie meningitis allowed us to identify some clinical and laboratory features of the infectious process.As it turned out, Coxsackie meningitis proceeded with more pronounced clinical symptoms of the disease, but at the same time, the cerebrospinal fluid parameters were less pronounced than with ECHO meningitis.The main symptoms of meningitis were short-term and subsided by the time the children were discharged from the hospital.Despite clinical recovery, almost half of the patients (49.2%) had partial cerebrospinal fluid sanation, which indicates incomplete morphological recovery of CNS functions in some patients by the time of discharge from the hospital, requiring comprehensive rehabilitation ofchildren after the disease.