Study Confirms Pathogenesis of EV-D68 Virus Causing Polio-like Paralyzing Illness in Children: UNC School of Medicine
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NewsDesk @bactiman63 A case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine provides evidence that enterovirus D68 directly infects spinal cord neurons and that a corresponding robust immune response is present - a direct causation to the polio-like paralyzing illness, acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics and microbiology & immunology at the UNC [...]
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