Antibodies to Enteroviruses in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Acute Flaccid Myelitis

ABSTRACT Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has caused motor paralysis in >560 children in the United States since 2014. The temporal association of enterovirus (EV) outbreaks with increases in AFM cases and reports of fever, respiratory, or gastrointestinal illness prior to AFM in >90% of cases sug...

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Main Authors: Nischay Mishra, Terry Fei Fan Ng, Rachel L. Marine, Komal Jain, James Ng, Riddhi Thakkar, Adrian Caciula, Adam Price, Joel A. Garcia, Jane C. Burns, Kiran T. Thakur, Kimbell L. Hetzler, Janell A. Routh, Jennifer L. Konopka-Anstadt, W. Allan Nix, Rafal Tokarz, Thomas Briese, M. Steven Oberste, W. Ian Lipkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-08-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01903-19