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SUBMITTER: Morens DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6445942 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morens David M DM Folkers Gregory K GK Fauci Anthony S AS
mBio 20190402 2
Since 2014, acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a long-recognized condition associated with polioviruses, nonpolio enteroviruses, and various other viral and nonviral causes, has been reemerging globally in epidemic form. This unanticipated reemergence is ironic, given that polioviruses, once the major causes of AFM, are now at the very threshold of global eradication and cannot therefore explain any aspect of AFM reemergence. Instead, the new AFM epidemic has been temporally associated with reemergen ...[more]