Letter to the editor: Need for a European network for enterovirus D68 surveillance after detections of EV-D68 of the new B3 lineage in Sweden and Italy, 2016

Euro Surveill. 2017 Jan 12;22(2):30440. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.2.30440.

Authors

Elena Pariani¹, Laura Pellegrinelli¹, Alessandra Di Cesare Merlone², Antonio Piralla³, Fausto Baldanti³, Sandro Binda¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
² Unità Operativa Complessa di Pediatria, ASST Lariana Como, Italy.
³ Molecular Virology Unit, Microbiology and Virology Department, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.

PMID: 28106530
PMCID: PMC5404488
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.2.30440

No abstract available

Keywords: B3 lineage; EVD68; acute flaccid myelitis; epidemiology; severe disease; surveillance.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Enterovirus D, Human / classification
Enterovirus D, Human / genetics*
Enterovirus D, Human / isolation & purification*
Enterovirus Infections / diagnosis*
Enterovirus Infections / virology
Europe
Humans
Italy
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Sentinel Surveillance*
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Sweden