Increased detection of Echovirus 6-associated meningitis in patients hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic, Israel 2021-2022.

"only 63 samples were sequenced due to low viral and technical difficulties (supplementary data 3) the male to female ratio and age distribution of patients positive for enterovirus are presented in table 1 .; positive sars-cov-2 infections are updated daily ( https://datadashboard health gov il/covid-19/general ) (supplementary data 2 table s5) 2 3 csf samples were extracted using nuclisense easymag (biomerieux france) according to the manufacturer's instructions.; in march 2022 after the decline in incidence of omicron cases the number of positive enterovirus cases increased and was higher compared to the low circulation seen in previous years during the same period (supplementary data 2 tables s1 and s2)."

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