Acute Flaccid Myelitis Associated with Enterovirus D68 in Children, Argentina, 2016

After a 2014 outbreak of severe respiratory illness caused by enterovirus D68 in the United States, sporadic cases of acute flaccid myelitis have been reported worldwide. We describe a cluster of acute flaccid myelitis cases in Argentina in 2016, adding data to the evidence of association between en...

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Autores principales: Carballo, Carolina M., Erro, Marcela García, Sordelli, Nora, Vazquez, Gabriel, Mistchenko, Alicia S., Cejas, Claudia, Rodriguez, Manlio, Cisterna, Daniel M., Freire, Maria Cecilia, Contrini, Maria M., Lopez, Eduardo L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30602120
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2503.170897
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Sumario:After a 2014 outbreak of severe respiratory illness caused by enterovirus D68 in the United States, sporadic cases of acute flaccid myelitis have been reported worldwide. We describe a cluster of acute flaccid myelitis cases in Argentina in 2016, adding data to the evidence of association between enterovirus D68 and this polio-like illness.

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