TY - JOUR AU - Knoester, Marjolein AU - Schölvinck, Elisabeth AU - Poelman, Randy AU - Smit, Sylvia AU - Vermont, Clementien AU - Niesters, Hubert G.M. AU - Van Leer-Buter, Coretta T1 - Upsurge of Enterovirus D68, the Netherlands, 2016 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 140 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In June and July 2016, we identified 8 adults and 17 children with respiratory enterovirus D68 infections. Thirteen children required intensive care unit admission because of respiratory insufficiency, and 1 had concomitant acute flaccid myelitis. Phylogenetic analysis showed that all of 20 sequences obtained belong to the recently described clade B3. KW - enterovirus KW - infectious myelitis KW - flaccid quadriplegia KW - respiratory insufficiency KW - infectious disease outbreaks KW - viruses KW - the Netherlands KW - EV-D68 DO - 10.3201/eid2301.161313 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/1/16-1313_article ER - End of Reference