Contemporary Circulating Enterovirus D68 Strains Have Acquired the Capacity for Viral Entry and Replication in Human Neuronal Cells

ABSTRACT Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has historically been associated with respiratory illnesses. However, in the summers of 2014 and 2016, EV-D68 outbreaks coincided with a spike in polio-like acute flaccid myelitis/paralysis (AFM/AFP) cases. This raised concerns that EV-D68 could be the causative age...

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Main Authors: David M. Brown, Alison M. Hixon, Lauren M. Oldfield, Yun Zhang, Mark Novotny, Wei Wang, Suman R. Das, Reed S. Shabman, Kenneth L. Tyler, Richard H. Scheuermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-11-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01954-18