Enterovirus D68 in a 6-year-old acute flaccid myelitis case in China, 2018: a case report

BACKGROUND: Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) are reported to be associated with enterovirus D68 infection. Though an increasing number of AFM cases were reported with EV-D68 infection in the US, few such cases have been found in China. CASE PRESENTATION: A 6-year-old boy presented with acute flaccid mye...

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Autores principales: Wang, Xiaoli, Zhang, Pengfei, Li, Jie, Chu, Yanhui, Li, Zheng, Yang, Yang, Li, Fu, Cui, Shujuan, Huo, Da, Wang, Yu, Wang, Quanyi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32046658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-4829-y
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) are reported to be associated with enterovirus D68 infection. Though an increasing number of AFM cases were reported with EV-D68 infection in the US, few such cases have been found in China. CASE PRESENTATION: A 6-year-old boy presented with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) involving left arm after fever and respiratory symptoms for 6 days. Computed Tomography (CT) revealed inflammation in both lungs and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain and spine showed swelling in the left frontal lobe and brain stem. The patient was diagnosed with meningomyelitis. EV-D68 was detected from pharyngeal samples 36 days after the onset of the disease. CONCLUSION: We report the first EV-D68 infection in case of AFM in mainland China. AFM surveillance systems is recommended to be established in China to guide diagnosis, case reporting, and specimen collection and testing for better understanding its etiologies.

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