Association of Enterovirus D68 with Acute Flaccid Myelitis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009–2018
Priyanka Uprety, Darcy Curtis, Michael Elkan, Jeffrey Fink, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Chunyu Zhao, Kyle Bittinger, Stephanie Mitchell, Erlinda R. Ulloa, Sarah Hopkins, and Erin H. Graf
Author affiliations: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P. Uprety, D. Curtis, M. Elkan, J. Fink, R. Rajagopalan, C. Zhao, K. Bittinger, E.R. Ulloa, S. Hopkins, E.H. Graf); University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (P. Uprety, K. Bittinger, S. Mitchell, E.R. Ulloa, S. Hopkins, E.H. Graf)
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Figure 1. Association between AFM and EV-D68 prevalence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009–2018. A) The percentage of nasopharyngeal aspirate samples positive for RV/EV that typed as EV-D68 by real-time reverse transcription PCR. B) Comparison of confirmed AFM cases with the prevalence of EV-D68 during the same time period using Spearman correlation ρ and linear regression analysis (n = 10). AFM, acute flaccid myelitis; EV-D68, enterovirus D68; RV/EV, rhinovirus/enterovirus.
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