%0 Case Reports
%T Fatal case of enterovirus 71 infection, France, 2007.
%A Vallet S
%A Legrand Quillien MC
%A Dailland T
%A Podeur G
%A Gouriou S
%A Schuffenecker I
%A Payan C
%A Marcorelles P
%J Emerg Infect Dis
%V 15
%N 11
%D Nov 2009
%M 19891879
%F 16.126
%R 10.3201/eid1511.090493
%X A fatal case of enterovirus 71 infection with pulmonary edema and rhombencephalitis occurred in Brest, France, in April 2007. The virus was identified as subgenogroup C2. This highly neurotropic enterovirus merits specific surveillance outside the Asia-Pacific region.