Molecular and Clinical Comparison of Enterovirus D68 Outbreaks among Hospitalized Children, Ohio, USA, 2014 and 2018

Molecular and Clinical Comparison of Enterovirus D68 Outbreaks among Hospitalized Children, Ohio, USA, 2014 and 2018

Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) causes respiratory tract infections and neurologic manifestations. We compared the clinical manifestations from 2 EV-D68 outbreaks in 2014 and 2018 and a low-activity period in 2016 among hospitalized children in central Ohio, USA, and used PCR and sequencing to enable phylo...

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Main Authors: Huanyu Wang, Alejandro Diaz, Katherine Moyer, Maria Mele-Casas, Maria Fatima Ara-Montojo, Isabel Torrus, Karen McCoy, Asuncion Mejias, Amy L. Leber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Enterovirus D68
EV-D68
pediatric
molecular detection
asthma
acute flaccid myelitis
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/11/19-0973_article

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