Increase in Acute Flaccid Myelitis - United States, 2018.

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Last Posted: Nov 16, 2018

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• Increase in Acute Flaccid Myelitis - United States, 2018.
  McKay Susannah L et al. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2018 Nov (45) 1273-1275
• CDC investigating burst of possible new cases of polio-like paralysis, as mystery persists
  H Branswell, Stat News, November 13, 2018
• Acute Flaccid Paralysis and Enteroviral Infections.
  Bitnun Ari et al. Current infectious disease reports 2018 Jun (9) 34
• Genetic characterization of enterovirus A71 isolates from severe neurological cases in Poland.
  Wieczorek Magdalena et al. Journal of medical virology 2018 Feb (2) 372-376
• The association between acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) and Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) – what is the evidence for causation?
  Dyda A, et al. Eurosurveillance, Jan 18, 2018.
• Notes from the Field: Cluster of Acute Flaccid Myelitis in Five Pediatric Patients - Maricopa County, Arizona, 2016.
  Iverson Sally A et al. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2017 Jul (28) 758-760
• Acute Flaccid Myelitis in U.S. Children 
• Enterovirus D68 Infection in Children with Acute Flaccid Myelitis, Colorado, USA, 2014.
  Aliabadi Negar et al. Emerging infectious diseases 2016 Aug (8) 1387-94
• Re-analysis of metagenomic sequences from acute flaccid myelitis patients reveals alternatives to enterovirus D68 infection.
  Breitwieser Florian P et al. F1000Res 2015 180
• A novel outbreak enterovirus D68 strain associated with acute flaccid myelitis cases in the USA (2012-14): a retrospective cohort study
  A Greninger et al. Lancet Infectious Diseases, April 2015

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