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SUBMITTER: Uprety P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6711208 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Uprety Priyanka P Curtis Darcy D Elkan Michael M Fink Jeffrey J Rajagopalan Ramakrishnan R Zhao Chunyu C Bittinger Kyle K Mitchell Stephanie S Ulloa Erlinda R ER Hopkins Sarah S Graf Erin H EH
Emerging infectious diseases 20190917 9
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a polio-like disease that results in paralysis in previously healthy persons. Although the definitive cause of AFM remains unconfirmed, enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is suspected based on 2014 data demonstrating an increase in AFM cases concomitant with an EV-D68 outbreak. We examined the prevalence in children and the molecular evolution of EV-D68 for 2009-2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. We detected widespread EV-D68 circulation in 2009, rare detections in 20 ...[more]