Prospective enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) surveillance from September 2015 to November 2018 indicates a current wave of activity in Wales

Since 7 June 2018, an enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68) season (the third since 2015) is ongoing in Wales, with 114 confirmed cases thus far. Median age of the 220 cases since 2015 is 2.5 years (2.5 years in intensive care cases), 94% were hospitalised, 17% (n = 38) in intensive care. All had respiratory sy...

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Autores principales: Cottrell, Simon, Moore, Catherine, Perry, Malorie, Hilvers, Ember, Williams, Chris, Shankar, Ananda Giri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6247461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30458915
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.46.1800578
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author Cottrell, Simon
Moore, Catherine
Perry, Malorie
Hilvers, Ember
Williams, Chris
Shankar, Ananda Giri
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description Since 7 June 2018, an enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68) season (the third since 2015) is ongoing in Wales, with 114 confirmed cases thus far. Median age of the 220 cases since 2015 is 2.5 years (2.5 years in intensive care cases), 94% were hospitalised, 17% (n = 38) in intensive care. All had respiratory symptoms; bronchiolitis symptoms were reported in 60 cases, severe respiratory symptoms in 23 and acute flaccid myelitis in two cases.
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spelling pubmed-62474612018-12-06 Prospective enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) surveillance from September 2015 to November 2018 indicates a current wave of activity in Wales Cottrell, Simon Moore, Catherine Perry, Malorie Hilvers, Ember Williams, Chris Shankar, Ananda Giri Euro Surveill Rapid Communication Since 7 June 2018, an enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68) season (the third since 2015) is ongoing in Wales, with 114 confirmed cases thus far. Median age of the 220 cases since 2015 is 2.5 years (2.5 years in intensive care cases), 94% were hospitalised, 17% (n = 38) in intensive care. All had respiratory symptoms; bronchiolitis symptoms were reported in 60 cases, severe respiratory symptoms in 23 and acute flaccid myelitis in two cases. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6247461/ /pubmed/30458915 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.46.1800578 Text en This article is copyright of The Authors, 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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title Prospective enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) surveillance from September 2015 to November 2018 indicates a current wave of activity in Wales
title_full Prospective enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) surveillance from September 2015 to November 2018 indicates a current wave of activity in Wales
title_fullStr Prospective enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) surveillance from September 2015 to November 2018 indicates a current wave of activity in Wales
title_full_unstemmed Prospective enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) surveillance from September 2015 to November 2018 indicates a current wave of activity in Wales
title_short Prospective enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) surveillance from September 2015 to November 2018 indicates a current wave of activity in Wales
title_sort prospective enterovirus d68 (ev-d68) surveillance from september 2015 to november 2018 indicates a current wave of activity in wales
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6247461/
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