Volume 22, Number 8—August 2016
Research
Enterovirus D68 Infection in Children with Acute Flaccid Myelitis, Colorado, USA, 2014
Negar Aliabadi
, Kevin Messacar, Daniel M. Pastula, Christine C. Robinson, Eyal Leshem, James Sejvar, W. Allan Nix, M. Steven Oberste, Daniel R. Feikin, and Samuel R. Dominguez
, Kevin Messacar, Daniel M. Pastula, Christine C. Robinson, Eyal Leshem, James Sejvar, W. Allan Nix, M. Steven Oberste, Daniel R. Feikin, and Samuel R. Dominguez
Table 3
EV-D68 association with acute flaccid myelitis compared with BP-tested controls, Colorado, USA, 2014*
| Model | BP-tested controls |
|
|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted models, OR (95% CI) | Adjusted models, OR (95% CI) | |
| EV-D68 | 3.7 (0.9–13.5)† | 4.5 (1.0–21.2)‡ |
| Fever | NA | 18.9 (3.0–424.1) |
| Type of specimen | NA | 0.2 (0.05–0.9) |
| Epidemiologic wk of specimen collection |
NA |
1.0 (0.8–1.3) |
| EV/RV excluding EV-D68 | 3.4 (0.6–17.2)§ | 2.5 (0.4–13.9)¶ |
| Fever | NA | 11.6 (1.6–276.5) |
| Type of specimen | NA | 0.2 (0.04–1.2) |
| Epidemiologic wk of specimen collection | NA | 1.1 (0.8–1.4) |
*Denominators vary slightly within models because some observations were missing for covariates. BP, Bordetella pertussis; EV, enterovirus; NA, not applicable; OR, odds ratio; RV, rhinovirus.
†n = 232.
‡n = 226.
§n = 201.
¶n = 195.
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