Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2019)

Acute Flaccid Myelitis Associated with Enterovirus D68 in Children, Argentina, 2016

  • Carolina M. Carballo,
  • Marcela García Erro,
  • Nora Sordelli,
  • Gabriel Vazquez,
  • Alicia S. Mistchenko,
  • Claudia Cejas,
  • Manlio Rodriguez,
  • Daniel M. Cisterna,
  • Maria Cecilia Freire,
  • Maria M. Contrini,
  • Eduardo L. Lopez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2503.170897
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 3
pp. 573 – 576

Abstract

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After a 2014 outbreak of severe respiratory illness caused by enterovirus D68 in the United States, sporadic cases of acute flaccid myelitis have been reported worldwide. We describe a cluster of acute flaccid myelitis cases in Argentina in 2016, adding data to the evidence of association between enterovirus D68 and this polio-like illness.

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