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Editor, Senior Moderator
Eurosurveillance, Volume 20, Issue 17, 30 April 2015
Rapid communications
Emergence of enterovirus D68 in Denmark, June 2014 to February 2015
S E Midgley (
)[SUP]1[/SUP], C B Christiansen[SUP]2[/SUP], M W Poulsen[SUP]1[/SUP], C H Hansen[SUP]1[/SUP], T K Fischer[SUP]1[/SUP][SUP],3[/SUP]
Citation style for this article: Midgley SE, Christiansen CB, Poulsen MW, Hansen CH, Fischer TK. Emergence of enterovirus D68 in Denmark, June 2014 to February 2015. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(17)
ii=21105. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=21105
Date of submission: 20 April 2015
[SIZE=+0]From June 2014 through February 2015, respiratory samples from 130 Danish patients were screened for enterovirus D68 (EV-D68). Fourteen EV-D68 cases were detected, of which 12 presented with respiratory symptoms, and eight had known underlying disease. The median age of EV-D68 cases was three years (interquartile range: 0?30 years). Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) was not detected although Danish EV-D68 strains showed > 98% nt identity with EV-D68-strains from AFP cases from the United States and France.
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Rapid communications
Emergence of enterovirus D68 in Denmark, June 2014 to February 2015
S E Midgley (
- Section for Virus Surveillance and Research, Department of Microbiological Diagnostics and Virology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Global Health, Clinical Institute, Syddansk University, Odense, Denmark
Citation style for this article: Midgley SE, Christiansen CB, Poulsen MW, Hansen CH, Fischer TK. Emergence of enterovirus D68 in Denmark, June 2014 to February 2015. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(17)
ii=21105. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=21105Date of submission: 20 April 2015
[SIZE=+0]From June 2014 through February 2015, respiratory samples from 130 Danish patients were screened for enterovirus D68 (EV-D68). Fourteen EV-D68 cases were detected, of which 12 presented with respiratory symptoms, and eight had known underlying disease. The median age of EV-D68 cases was three years (interquartile range: 0?30 years). Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) was not detected although Danish EV-D68 strains showed > 98% nt identity with EV-D68-strains from AFP cases from the United States and France.
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http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=21105