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

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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Main Authors: Carolina M. Carballo, Marcela García Erro, Nora Sordelli, Gabriel Vazquez, Alicia S. Mistchenko, Claudia Cejas, Manlio Rodriguez, Daniel M. Cisterna, Maria Cecilia Freire, Maria M. Contrini, Eduardo L. Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-03-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
enterovirus
infectious disease outbreaks
myelitis
children
acute flaccid myelitis
Argentina
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/3/17-0897_article

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