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JAMA. 2000;284:2311-2312.

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MMWR. 2000;49:913-916

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Enteroviruses account for an estimated 10-15 million symptomatic infections in the United States each year.¹ At present, 66 serotypes of enteroviruses are recognized, including three poliovirus serotypes.² A range of diseases is associated with nonpolio enterovirus infections, including aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, neonatal enteroviral disease, myocarditis, pericarditis, chronic infections among persons with compromised immune systems, poliomyelitis-like illness, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, nonspecific upper respiratory disease, and other manifestations.³ This report summarizes data from the National Enterovirus Surveillance System (NESS) and describes temporal trends of reported enterovirus infections in the United States during 1997-1999.

From January 1997 through December 1999, state public health laboratories reported to CDC 1741 enterovirus isolates, including 1672 isolates of nonpolio enteroviruses and 69 isolates of vaccine-related polioviruses. The number of states reporting enterovirus isolations declined from 14 in 1997 to eight in 1999.

Of the 1672 nonpolio enterovirus isolates, echovirus 30 was the predominant . . . [Full Text of this Article]