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Volume 25, Number 6—June 2019
Dispatch

Increase in Enterovirus D68 Infections in Young Children, United Kingdom, 2006–2016

Everlyn Kamau, Heli HarvalaComments to Author , Soile Blomqvist, Dung Nguyen, Peter Horby, Richard Pebody, and Peter SimmondsComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (E. Kamau, D. Nguyen, P. Horby, P. Simmonds); National Health Service Blood and Transplant, London, UK (H. Harvala); National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland (S. Blomqvist); Public Health England, London (R. Pebody)

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Comparison of incidence of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in the United Kingdom in 2006 and 2016. A) Estimated annual incidence of EV-D68 infection for each age group. Incidence was inferred from the difference in seroprevalence from that of the previous age band and converted into infections/year/1,000 population (by dividing the difference in prevalence by the number of years in the age band and multiplying by 1,000). Frequencies of samples with neutralizing antibody titer >16 are shown above bar

Figure 2. Comparison of incidence of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in the United Kingdom in 2006 and 2016. A) Estimated annual incidence of EV-D68 infection for each age group. Incidence was inferred from the difference in seroprevalence from that of the previous age band and converted into infections/year/1,000 population (by dividing the difference in prevalence by the number of years in the age band and multiplying by 1,000). Frequencies of samples with neutralizing antibody titer >16 are shown above bars. B) Change in incidence of EV-D68 infections from 2006 to 2016, expressed as additional EV-68 infections/year (y-axis scale). Figures above bars indicate the predicted positive (red) and negative (blue) change in number infections if these incidences were applied to the whole UK population, based on age-stratified population totals for 2016 obtained from Statista (https://www.statista.com/statistics/281174/uk-population-by-age).

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