Enterovirus D68-Associated Acute Flaccid Myelitis in Immunocompromised Woman, Italy.

ABSTRACT: In Italy in 2016, acute flaccid myelitis developed in a woman who had received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Enterovirus D68 viral genome was detected in respiratory and cerebrospinal fluid samples, and the viral protein 1 sequence clustered with lineage B3. Immunocompromised adults may be at risk for enterovirus D68-associated neurologic complications.

SUBMITTER: Giombini E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5621549 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature