The association between acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) and enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) – what is the evidence for causation?

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Dyda, Amalie ^a   Stelzer Braid, Sacha ^a,b   Adam, Dillon ^a   Chughtai, Abrar A ^a   Macintyre, C Raina ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE FLACCID MYELITIS; CLADISTICS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROVIRUS D68; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MYELITIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; VIRUS STRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; ENTEROVIRUS D; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE FLACCID MYELITIS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VIRAL DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROVIRUS D, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MYELITIS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 85041924107     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.3.17-00310     Document Type: Review

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