Asiyath Rasheed

Corresponding Author Jocelyn Padre Newborn Services, Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital, Western Health, St Albans, Victoria, Australia Correspondence Jocelyn Padre, Newborn Services, Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital, Western Health, 176 Furlong Rd, St Albans, Vic. 3023, Australia. Email: jocelyn.padre@wh.org.au Contribution: Conceptualization, Methodology, Data curation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing Search for more papers by this author

1 INTRODUCTION Financially disadvantaged women face a higher risk of having premature and/or very low birth weight (VLBW) infants due to a combination of socioeconomic, environmental and healthcare-related factors (Faulks et al., 2023).

Parechovirus infection as a cause of necrotising enterocolitis in a premature neonate Eleanor Angley, Niranjan Thomas, Eugene Kua and Asiyath Rasheed Neonatology, Sunshine Hospital, Saint Albans, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Niranjan Thomas; niranjan.abraham{at}wh.org.au Abstract Parechovirus is becoming increasingly recognised as a cause of morbidity in the neonatal population. It is widely known to cause sepsis, encephalitis and myocarditis.