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Amy joins the TWiV team to review evidence that enterovirus D68 is an etiologic agent of childhood paralysis, and her finding that the ability of the virus to infect cells of the nervous system is not a recently acquired property.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Amy Rosenfeld
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- EV-D68 antibodies in humans before 2014 outbreak (Emerg Inf Dis)
- Enterovirus antibodies in CSF of AFM patients (mBio)
- Serology implicates enteroviruses in AFM (Nat Med)
- EV-D68 neurotropism is not new (mBio)
- Letters read on TWiV 572
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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