Acute flaccid myelitis of unknown etiology in California, 2012-2015

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 2663-2671

  Van Haren, Keith ^a,b   Ayscue, Patrick ^c,d,e   Waubant, Emmanuelle ^f,g   Clayton, Anna ^d   Sheriff, Heather ^d   Yagi, Shigeo ^d   Glenn Finer, Rose ^d   Padilla, Tasha ^d   Strober, Jonathan B ^f,g   Aldrovandi, Grace ^h   Wadford, Debra A ^d   Chiu, Charles Y ⁱ   Xia, Dongxiang ^d   Harriman, Kathleen ^d   Watt, James P ^d   Glaser, Carol A ^d,g,j  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Division of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

^e METABIOTA INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j Oakland Medical Center   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENTEROVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMIZED PATIENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INCIDENCE; LIMB DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; MYELITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MYELITIS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STEROIDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84951952322     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.17275     Document Type: Article

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