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. 2019 Mar 5;321(9):831-832.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.1016.

Enterovirus D68-Associated Acute Flaccid Myelitis: Rising to the Clinical and Research Challenges

Kevin Messacar  1   2 , Kenneth L Tyler  3   4
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Enterovirus D68-Associated Acute Flaccid Myelitis: Rising to the Clinical and Research Challenges

Kevin Messacar et al. JAMA. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Dr Messacar reported receiving grants from NIAID during the conduct of the study and is a member of the CDC Acute Flaccid Myelitis Task Force. Dr Tyler reported receiving grants from NINDS and from Taiga Biotechnologies during the conduct of the study; personal fees from DNAtrix, grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and grants from NIH outside the submitted work. Dr Tyler is also a member of the CDC Acute Flaccid Myelitis Task Force.

References

    1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Acute flaccid myelitis surveillance. https://www.cdc.gov/acute-flaccid-myelitis/afm-surveillance.html. Accessed February 10, 2019.
    1. Messacar K, Schreiner TL, Van Haren K, et al. Acute flaccid myelitis: a clinical review of US cases 2012–2015. Ann Neurol. 2016;80(3):326–338. doi: 10.1002/ana.24730 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Martin JA, Messacar K, Yang ML, et al. Outcomes of Colorado children with acute flaccid myelitis at 1 year. Neurology. 2017;89(2):129–137. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004081 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Messacar K, Asturias EJ, Hixon AM, et al. Enterovirus D68 and acute flaccid myelitis-evaluating the evidence for causality. Lancet Infect Dis. 2018;18(8):e239–e247. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30094-X - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Messacar K, Pretty K, Reno S, Dominguez SR. Continued biennial circulation of enterovirus D68 in Colorado. J Clin Virol. 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2019.01.008 - DOI - PubMed

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