Acute Flaccid Myelitis in the United States, August-December 2014: Results of Nationwide Surveillance

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 737-745

  Sejvar, James J ^a   Lopez, Adriana S ^b   Cortese, Margaret M ^b   Leshem, Eyal ^b   Pastula, Daniel M ^a   Miller, Lisa ^c   Glaser, Carol ^d   Kambhampati, Anita ^b,e   Shioda, Kayoko ^b,e   Aliabadi, Negar ^b   Fischer, Marc ^a   Gregoricus, Nicole ^b   Lanciotti, Robert ^a   Nix, W Allan ^b   Sakthivel, Senthilkumar K ^b   Schmid, D Scott ^b   Seward, Jane F ^b   Tong, Suxiang ^b   Oberste, M Steven ^b   Pallansch, Mark ^b   Feikin, Daniel ^b   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

^c California Department of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^d Division of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

acute flaccid myelitis; enterovirus; limb weakness; polio; surveillance

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE FLACCID MYELITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHILD; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROVIRUS D; ENTEROVIRUS D68; EPIDEMIC; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAY MATTER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION; ACUTE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTEROVIRUS D, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MYELITIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84995451833     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw372     Document Type: Article

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