Acute Flaccid Myelitis
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Last Posted: Aug 30, 2019
- Investigation of host factors in infectious disease: acute flaccid myelitis
P Duggal, CDC presentation slides, July 2019 - C.D.C. Investigates Rare Paralysis in Children
by Pam Belluck, New York Times, July 9, 2019 - Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM)
Acute Flaccid Myelitis: Promptly recognize & rapidly report
CDC Vital Signs, July 9, 2019 - Serological and metagenomic interrogation of cerebrospinal fluid implicates enteroviruses in pediatric acute flaccid myelitis
RD Schubert et al, BiorxIV preprints, June 19, 2019 - Investigation of Host Genetic Factors in Infectious Diseases: Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM)
CDC Webinar, July 23, 2019 - AFM's Terrifying Randomness May Not Be So Random - Why does a virus leave one child paralyzed and others unscathed
C Arnold, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, June 2019 - Acute flaccid myelitis requires galvanized research response
NIH News Release, April 2, 2019 - Social Media in the Age of the "New Polio".
Bove Riley et al. The New England journal of medicine 2019 Mar (13) 1195-1197 - Enterovirus D68–Associated Acute Flaccid Myelitis- Rising to the Clinical and Research Challenges
K Messacar et al, JAMA, February 15, 2019 - Enterovirus D68-Associated Acute Flaccid Myelitis: Rising to the Clinical and Research Challenges.
Messacar Kevin, et al. JAMA 2019 2 0. - Outbreaks of acute flaccid myelitis in the US
BMJ editorial, December 19, 2018 - Search for the unknown: The rise of Acute Flaccid Myelitis the puzzling, polio-like condition
NBC News, December 10, 2018 - Machine learning helps to hunt down the cause of a paralysing illness
S Reardon, Nature News, December 6, 2018 - Acute Flaccid Myelitis—Keys to Diagnosis, Questions About Treatment, and Future Directions
SE Hopkins et al, JAMA Pediatrics, November 30, 2018 - Acute Flaccid Myelitis-Keys to Diagnosis, Questions About Treatment, and Future Directions.
Hopkins Sarah E, et al. JAMA pediatrics 2018 11 0. - Increase in Acute Flaccid Myelitis - United States, 2018.
McKay Susannah L et al. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2018 Nov (45) 1273-1275 - CDC investigating burst of possible new cases of polio-like paralysis, as mystery persists
H Branswell, Stat News, November 13, 2018 - Acute Flaccid Paralysis and Enteroviral Infections.
Bitnun Ari et al. Current infectious disease reports 2018 Jun (9) 34 - Genetic characterization of enterovirus A71 isolates from severe neurological cases in Poland.
Wieczorek Magdalena et al. Journal of medical virology 2018 Feb (2) 372-376 - Acute Flaccid Myelitis in U.S. Children
- A novel outbreak enterovirus D68 strain associated with acute flaccid myelitis cases in the USA (2012-14): a retrospective cohort study
A Greninger et al. Lancet Infectious Diseases, April 2015 - CDC investigation of acute flaccid myelitis in U.S. children, 2014
- Acute flaccid myelitis
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