[Epidemiology of enterovirus associated with neurologic diseases].

This report describes the results of human enterovirus (HEV) detection and characterization using cell culture, polymerase chain reaction and molecular typing in 2167 samples obtained from acute flaccid paralysis, aseptic meningitis and acute encephalitis patients, from 1991 to 1998 in Argentina. HEV were isolated in 130 out of 666 cases (19.5%) and 36 out of 666 (5.