Acute flaccid paralysis and enteroviral infections

A Bitnun, EA Yeh - Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The focus of this review is on enterovirus (EV)-associated acute
flaccid paralysis (AFP) due to spinal cord anterior horn cell disease. Emphasis is placed on …

Epidemiology and sequence-based evolutionary analysis of circulating non-polio enteroviruses

DM Brown, Y Zhang, RH Scheuermann - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Enteroviruses (EVs) are positive-sense RNA viruses, with over 50,000 nucleotide
sequences publicly available. While most human infections are typically associated with …

Environmental surveillance reveals complex enterovirus circulation patterns in human populations

M Majumdar, S Sharif, D Klapsa, T Wilton… - Open Forum …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Enteroviruses are common human pathogens occasionally associated with
severe disease, notoriously paralytic poliomyelitis caused by poliovirus. Other enterovirus …

Quito's virome: Metagenomic analysis of viral diversity in urban streams of Ecuador's capital city

L Guerrero-Latorre, B Romero, E Bonifaz… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
In Quito, the microbiological contamination of surface water represents a public health
problem, mainly due to the lack of sewage treatment from urban wastewater. Contaminated …

Wastewater-based epidemiology and long-read sequencing to identify enterovirus circulation in three municipalities in Maricopa County, Arizona, Southwest United …

TOC Faleye, DA Bowes, EM Driver, S Adhikari… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
We used wastewater-based epidemiology and amplicon-based long-read high-throughput
sequencing for surveillance of enteroviruses (EVs) in Maricopa County, Arizona, Southwest …

Detection by direct next generation sequencing analysis of emerging enterovirus D68 and C109 strains in an environmental sample from Scotland

M Majumdar, J Martin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Background: Human enteroviruses (EVs) have been linked with severe disease and
syndromes as varied as acute respiratory illness, myocarditis, and flaccid paralysis. With …

Influence of nonpolio enteroviruses and the bacterial gut microbiota on oral poliovirus vaccine response: a study from South India

I Praharaj, EPK Parker, S Giri, DJ Allen… - The Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) is less immunogenic in low-or middle-income
than in high-income countries. We tested whether bacterial and viral components of the …

Recent advances on the role of host factors during non-poliovirus enteroviral infections

CO Owino, JJH Chu - Journal of biomedical science, 2019 - Springer
Non-polio enteroviruses are emerging viruses known to cause outbreaks of polio-like
infections in different parts of the world with several cases already reported in Asia Pacific …

Non-polio enteroviruses in faeces of children diagnosed with acute flaccid paralysis in Nigeria

TOC Faleye, MO Adewumi, MO Japhet, OM David… - Virology journal, 2017 - Springer
Background The need to investigate the contribution of non-polio enteroviruses to acute
flaccid paralysis (AFP) cannot be over emphasized as we move towards a poliovirus free …

Acute flaccid myelitis: something old and something new

DM Morens, GK Folkers, AS Fauci - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Since 2014, acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a long-recognized condition associated with
polioviruses, nonpolio enteroviruses, and various other viral and nonviral causes, has been …