Letter to the editor: Need for a European network for enterovirus D68 surveillance after detections of EV-D68 of the new B3 lineage in Sweden and Italy, 2016

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Pariani, Elena ^a   Pellegrinelli, L ^a   Merlone, A D C ^b   Piralla, A ^c   Baldanti, F ^c   Binda, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ASST Lariana General Hospital   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

H2 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN VP1; PROTEIN VP3; VIRUS RNA;

BULBAR PARALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS D68; ENTEROVIRUS D68 INFECTION; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EUROPE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOREFLEXIA; ITALY; LETTER; MYELITIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PHYLOGENY; POLIOMYELITIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; VIRUS DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROVIRUS D; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VIROLOGY;

ENTEROVIRUS D, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; EUROPE; HUMANS; ITALY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWEDEN;

EID: 85010601213     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.2.30440     Document Type: Letter

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