National Reference Center (NRC) for Enterovirus, including polioviruses and parechoviruses

Publications

1. Simoes MP, Hodcroft EB, Simmonds P, Albert J, Alidjinou EK, Ambert-Balay K, et al., Benschop KSM. (2024). Epidemiological and clinical insights into the enterovirus D68 upsurge in Europe 202½2 and the emergence of novel B3-derived lineages, ENPEN multicentre study. J Infect Dis. 2024 Mar 28:jiae154. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae154
2. Rector A, Bloemen M, Thijssen M, Pussig B, Beuselinck K, Van Ranst M, and Wollants E. (2024). Respiratory Viruses in Wastewater Compared with Clinical Samples, Leuven, Belgium. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Jan;30(1):141-145. doi: 10.3201/eid3001.231011
3. Rector A, Bloemen M, Van Ranst M, Wollants E. (2023). Used paper tissues for pathogen identification in acute respiratory infection. J Med Virol. 2023 Oct;95(10):e29127. doi: 10.1002/jmv.29127
4. Vermeersch G, Laenen L, Lens G, van der Elst KCM, Thal DR, Jentjens S, et al., Woei-A-Jin FJSH0. (2022). Antiviral treatment with fluoxetine for rituximab-associated chronic echovirus 13 meningoencephalitis and myofascitis. Eur J Neurol. 2022 Oct;29(10):3117-3123. doi: 10.1111/ene.15478
5. Wollants E, Maes P, Merino M, Bloemen M, Van Ranst M, Vanmechelen B. (2020). First genomic characterization of a Belgian Enterovirus C104 using sequence-independent Nanopore sequencing. Infect Genet Evol. 2020 Jul;81:104267. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104267

Helpful links

At the bottom of this page, you can find the NRC reports.

You can consult the epidemiological surveillance reports also at: Health topic Poliomyelitis (polio), Health topic Vaccine-preventable diseases. 

The slides of the information session (27/04/2023) regarding the activities of the NRC Enterovirus can be consulted via: Information session April 2023