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Volume 25, Number 3—March 2019
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis Associated with Enterovirus D68 in Children, Argentina, 2016

Carolina M. CarballoComments to Author , Marcela García Erro, Nora Sordelli, Gabriel Vazquez, Alicia S. Mistchenko, Claudia Cejas, Manlio Rodriguez, Daniel M. Cisterna, Maria Cecilia Freire, Maria M. Contrini, and Eduardo L. Lopez
Author affiliations: Hospital de Niños “Ricardo Gutiérrez,” Buenos Aires, Argentina (C.M. Carballo, M. García Erro, N. Sordelli, A.S. Mistchenko, M. Rodriguez, M.M. Contrini, E.L. Lopez); Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia (FLENI), Buenos Aires (G. Vazquez, C. Cejas); Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud (ANLIS) “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán,” Buenos Aires (D.M. Cisterna, M.C. Freire)

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Table 2

Diagnostic findings in patients with acute flaccid myelitis, Argentina, 2016

Laboratory tests Patient 1 Patient 2 Patient 3 Patient 4 Patient 5 Patient 6
Cerebrospinal fluid findings
Leukocytes/mm3 (% mononuclear cells) 195 (85) 4 (100) 23 (84) 130 (96) 40 (70) 16 (54)
Glucose, mg/dL, reference range 40–70 53 58 60 55 57 76
Protein, mg/dL, reference range 15–50 41 70 33 34 41 34
Albuminocytological dissociation
 No
 Yes
 No
 No
 No
 No
Virologic findings
Enterovirus-D68 Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Nontypable enterovirus
 No
 No
 No
 No
 No
 Yes
Type of positive specimen
Nasopharyngeal aspirate Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Feces No Yes No Yes No No
Cerebrospinal fluid
 No
 No
 No
 No
 No
 No
Time from prodromal illness to specimen collection 5 d 30 d 13 d 6 d 25 d 3 d

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