A cluster of acute flaccid paralysis and cranial nerve dysfunction temporally associated with an outbreak of enterovirus D68 in children in Colorado, USA

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9978, 2015, Pages 1662-1671

  Messacar, Kevin ^a   Schreiner, Teri L ^a   Maloney, John A ^a   Wallace, Adam ^a   Ludke, Jan ^a   Oberste, M Stephen ^b   Nix, W Allan ^b   Robinson, Christine C ^a   Glodé, Mary P ^a   Abzug, Mark J ^a   Dominguez, Samuel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL GRAY MATTER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS D68 INFECTION; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT HISTORY OF HEART TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COLORADO; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PARALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933277814     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62457-0     Document Type: Article

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