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Enterovirus D68 was successfully detected in the CSF of a 28-year-old woman with acute flaccid paralysis using an EV-D68-specific real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assay.
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Highlights a rare adult case of acute flaccid paralysis associated with enterovirus D68 infection.
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Supports EV-D68 testing in select adult AFP cases; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation before practice change.
Although once considered rare, incidence of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) infections has been increasing throughout the 21st century, and is connected to cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP),1,2 a condition for which there is no established treatment. We report a 28-year-old Japanese woman admitted to our hospital with distal muscular weakness after experiencing upper respiratory symptoms and subsequently diagnosed with AFP.
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Kimura et al. (2017) conducted a case report in Acute flaccid paralysis (n=1). Enterovirus D68 infection was evaluated on Detection of EV-D68 in CSF and clinical outcome. Enterovirus D68 was successfully detected in the CSF of a 28-year-old woman with acute flaccid paralysis using an EV-D68-specific real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assay.
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