A ten-year retrospective evaluation of acute flaccid myelitis at 5 pediatric centers in the United States, 2005-2014.
BACKGROUND:Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a severe illness similar to paralytic poliomyelitis. It is unclear how frequently AFM occurred in U.S. children after poliovirus elimination. In 2014, an AFM cluster was identified in Colorado, prompting passive US surveillance that yielded 120 AFM cases of...
Main Authors: | Margaret M Cortese, Anita K Kambhampati, Jennifer E Schuster, Zaid Alhinai, Gary R Nelson, Gloria J Guzman Perez-Carrillo, Arastoo Vossough, Michael A Smit, Robert C McKinstry, Timothy Zinkus, Kevin R Moore, Jeffrey M Rogg, Meghan S Candee, James J Sejvar, Sarah E Hopkins |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228671 |
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