Cytokine profile in a patient with enterovirus D68-associated acute flaccid myelitis

Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is an uncommon neurological disease with acute polio-like paralysis (1). Spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in AFM patients revealed longitudinal, anterior horn-specific lesions in spinal cord suggestive of anterior myelitis (1). The frequent occurrence of AFM patients coincided with enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) outbreaks during 2014 in the US (2), or during 2015 (3) and 2018 in Japan. The identification of EV-D68 in respiratory specimens from AFM patients worldwide further supports the association (1).
Source: Pediatric Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Clinical Letter Source Type: research