Cytokine biomarkers associated with clinical cases of acute flaccid myelitis.

ABSTRACT: Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a serious neurological illness first recognized in the United States in 2014, with subsequent outbreaks every two years. Following extensive etiologic testing by multiple laboratories of hundreds of specimens collected from patients diagnosed with AFM, no consistent cause of AFM has been identified. However, viruses, including enteroviruses, have been implicated through detection in non-sterile site specimens and antibody studies. Cytokines and chemokines play important roles in the modulation of the innate and adaptive immune response to pathogens. In the current study, we measured levels of cytokines and chemokines in serum and CSF collected from confirmed AFM patients and non-AFM control patients, to identify unique biomarkers as potential hallmarks of AF

SUBMITTER: Weldon WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9189760 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature