An Enterovirus D68 Outbreak Highlights the Value of Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialists
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Enterovirus d68. A focused review and clinical highlights from the 2014 U.S. Outbreak.
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), a member of the Picornaviridae family, was first identified in 1962 and is part of a group of small, nonenveloped RNA viruses. As a family, these viruses are among the most common causes of disease among humans. However, outbreaks of disease attributable to EV-D68 have been rarely reported in the previous 4 decades. Reports from a few localized outbreaks since 2008 des...
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BACKGROUND Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) resulted in a reported increase in the number of children needing hospital or critical care admission because of respiratory insufficiency during 2014. It remains unclear, however, whether EV-D68 infections were more severe than rhinovirus or non-EV-D68 enterovirus infections. METHODS We evaluated consecutive children presenting to a pediatric hospital betw...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2048-7193,2048-7207
DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piu117