Notes from the Field: Cluster of Acute Flaccid Myelitis in Five Pediatric Patients - Maricopa County, Arizona, 2016
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
.
2017 Jul 21;66(28):758-760.
doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6628a4.
Authors
Sally A Iverson
,
Scott Ostdiek
,
Siru Prasai
,
David M Engelthaler
,
Melissa Kretschmer
,
Nicole Fowle
,
Harlori K Tokhie
,
Janell Routh
,
James Sejvar
,
Tracy Ayers
,
Jolene Bowers
,
Shane Brady
,
Shannon Rogers
,
W Allan Nix
,
Ken Komatsu
,
Rebecca Sunenshine
;
AFM Investigation Team
Collaborators
AFM Investigation Team
:
Tammy Sylvester
1
,
Veronica Harrison
2
,
Jennifer Heim
3
,
Susan Robinson
4
,
Gholamabbas A Ostovar
5
,
Kathryn Fitzpatrick
6
Affiliations
1
Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Arizona.
2
Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona.
3
Phoenix Children's Hospital, Arizona.
4
Arizona Department of Health Services.
5
Maricopa Integrated Health System, Arizona.
6
Arizona State Public Health Laboratory, Virology Section.
PMID:
28727681
PMCID:
PMC5657946
DOI:
10.15585/mmwr.mm6628a4
No abstract available
MeSH terms
Acute Disease
Arizona / epidemiology
Child
Child, Preschool
Cluster Analysis
Female
Humans
Male
Muscle Hypotonia / epidemiology*
Myelitis / epidemiology*