TY - JOUR AU - Carballo, Carolina AU - Erro, Marcela GarcĂ­a AU - Sordelli, Nora AU - Vazquez, Gabriel AU - Mistchenko, Alicia AU - Cejas, Claudia AU - Rodriguez, Manlio AU - Cisterna, Daniel AU - Freire, Maria Cecilia AU - Contrini, Maria AU - Lopez, Eduardo T1 - Acute Flaccid Myelitis Associated with Enterovirus D68 in Children, Argentina, 2016 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 3 SP - 573 SN - 1080-6059 AB - After a 2014 outbreak of severe respiratory illness caused by enterovirus D68 in the United States, sporadic cases of acute flaccid myelitis have been reported worldwide. We describe a cluster of acute flaccid myelitis cases in Argentina in 2016, adding data to the evidence of association between enterovirus D68 and this polio-like illness. KW - enterovirus KW - infectious disease outbreaks KW - myelitis KW - children KW - acute flaccid myelitis KW - Argentina KW - viruses KW - EV-D68 DO - 10.3201/eid2503.170897 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/3/17-0897_article ER - End of Reference