• Delayed cerebral vasculopathy in pneumococcal meningitis: epidemiology and clinical outcome. A cohort study 

      Boix-Palop, Lucía; Fernández, Tamara; Pelegrín, Iván; Obradors, Meritxell; García-Roulston, Kevin; Xercavins Valls, Mariona; García-Somoza, Dolors; Ardanuy, Carmen; Grau, Javier; Calbo Sebastián, Esther; Cabellos, Carmen (International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020-08)
      Background: To describe the prevalence, clinical characteristics, impact of systemic steroids exposure and outcomes of delayed cerebral vasculopathy (DCV) in a cohort of adult patients with pneumococcal ...
    • Genomic and serologic characterization ofenterovirus A71 brainstem encephalitis 

      Leon, Kristoffer E.; Schubert, Ryan D.; Casas-Alba, Didac; Hawes, Isobel A.; Ramachandran, Prashanth S.; Ramesh, Akshaya; Pak, John E.; Wu, Wesley; Cheung, Carly K.; Crawford, Emily D.; Khan, Lillian M.; Launes, Cristian; Sample, Hannah A.; Zorn, Kelsey C.; Cabrerizo, María; Valero-Rello, Ana; Langelier, Charles; Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen; DeRisi, Joseph L.; Wilson, Michael R. (Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, 2020)
      Objective: In 2016, Catalonia experienced a pediatric brainstem encephalitis outbreak caused by enterovirus A71 (EV-A71). Conventional testing identified EV in the periphery but rarely in CSF. Metagenomic ...
    • Molecular epidemiology of an enterovirus A71 outbreak associated with severe neurological disease, Spain, 2016 

      González-Sanz, Rubén; Casas-Alba, Didac; Launes, Cristian; Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen; Ruiz-García, María Montserrat; Alonso, Mercedes; González-Abad, María José; Megías, Gregoria; Rabella, Nuria; Del Cuerpo, Margarita; Gozalo Margüello, Mónica; González-Praetorius, Alejandro; Martínez-Sapiña, Ana; Goyanes-Galán, María José; Romero, María Pilar; Calvo, Cristina; Antón, Andrés; Imaz, Manuel; Aranzamendi, Maitane; Hernández-Rodríguez, Águeda; Moreno-Docón, Antonio; Rey-Cao, Sonia; Navasués, Ana; Otero, Almudena; Cabrerizo, María (Eurosurveillance, 2019-02)
      Enterovirus 71 (EV-A71) is a small, non-enveloped, single-stranded RNA virus that belongs to the species Enterovirus A along with 24 other serotypes within the Enterovirus genus [1]. According to the ...
    • Serotype distribution of remaining pneumococcal meningitis in the mature PCV10/13 period: findings from the PSERENADE project 

      Garcia Quesada, Maria; Yang, Yangyupei; Bennett, Julia C.; Hayford, Kyla; Zeger, Scott L.; Feikin, Daniel R.; Peterson, Meagan E.; Cohen, Adam L.; Almeida, Samanta C. G.; Ampofo, Krow; Ang, Michelle; Bar-Zeev, Naor; Bruce, Michael G.; Camilli, Romina; Chanto Chacón, Grettel; Ciruela, Pilar; Cohen, Cheryl; Corcoran, Mary; Dagan, Ron; De Wals, Philippe; Desmet, Stefanie; Diawara, Idrissa; Gierke, Ryan; Guevara, Marcela; Hammitt, Laura L.; Hilty, Markus; Ho, Pak-Leung; Jayasinghe, Sanjay; Kleynhans, Jackie; Kristinsson, Karl G.; Ladhani, Shamez N.; McGeer, Allison; Mwenda, Jason M.; Nuort, J. Pekka; Oishi, Kazunori; Ricketson, Leah J.; Sanz, Juan Carlos; Savrasova, Larisa; Setchanova, Lena Petrova; Smith, Andrew; Valentiner-Branth, Palle; Valenzuela, Maria Teresa; Van der Linden, Mark; Van Sorge, Nina M.; Varon, Emmanuelle; Winje, Brita A.; Yildirim, Inci; Zintgraff, Jonathan; Knoll, Maria Deloria; PSERENADE Team (Microorganisms, 2021)
      Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) introduction has reduced pneumococcal meningitis incidence. The Pneumococcal Serotype Replacement and Distribution Estimation (PSERENADE) project described the ...
    • Trends in paediatric viral meningitis and encephalitis with unconfirmed aetiology: a spanish population-based study, 2016-2020 

      Pons-Espinal, Marina; López-Perea, Noemi; Masa-Calles, Josefa; Muñoz-Almagro, Carmen; Tarragó, David; Launes, Cristian (Acta Paediatrica, 2025)
      Aim: The prevalence of meningitis and encephalitis of unknown aetiology in Spanish children has not been specifically documented before. The aim of this study is to describe the epidemiology and trends ...