Enterovirus D68 and acute flaccid myelitis—evaluating the evidence for causality

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2018, Pages e239-e247

  Messacar, Kevin ^a,b,c   Asturias, Edwin J ^a,c,d   Hixon, Alison M ^b   Van Leer Buter, Coretta ^e   Niesters, Hubert G M ^e   Tyler, Kenneth L ^b   Abzug, Mark J ^a,c   Dominguez, Samuel R ^a,c  

^a University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

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

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL COLORADO   (United States)

^d Food Science and Human Nutrition   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE FLACCID MYELITIS; CAUSALITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROVIRUS A71; ENTEROVIRUS D68; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MOTONEURON; MYELITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; VIRUS ISOLATION; WEST NILE VIRUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; ENTEROVIRUS D; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PARALYSIS; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE FLACCID MYELITIS;

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

EID: 85042367414     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30094-X     Document Type: Review

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