Imperial College London
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Dr Margarita Pons-Salort

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Sir Henry Dale Fellow (ARF)
 
 
 
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Sir Michael Uren HubWhite City Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Park:2021:10.1101/2020.07.23.20069468,
author = {Park, SW and Farrar, J and Messacar, K and Meyers, L and Pons-Salort, M and Grenfell, BT},
doi = {10.1101/2020.07.23.20069468},
journal = {medRxiv},
title = {Epidemiological dynamics of enterovirus D68 in the US: implications for acute flaccid myelitis.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.23.20069468},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The lack of active surveillance for enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in the US has hampered the ability to assess the relationship with predominantly biennial epidemics of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a rare but serious neurological condition. Using novel surveillance data from the BioFire® Syndromic Trends (Trend) epidemiology network, we characterize the epidemiological dynamics of EV-D68 and demonstrate strong spatiotemporal association with AFM. Although the recent dominant biennial cycles of EV-D68 dynamics may not be stable, we show that a major EV-D68 epidemic, and hence an AFM outbreak, would still be possible in 2020 under normal epidemiological conditions. Significant social distancing due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could reduce the size of an EV-D68 epidemic in 2020, illustrating the potential broader epidemiological impact of the pandemic.
AU  - Park,SW
AU  - Farrar,J
AU  - Messacar,K
AU  - Meyers,L
AU  - Pons-Salort,M
AU  - Grenfell,BT
DO  - 10.1101/2020.07.23.20069468
PY  - 2021///
TI  - Epidemiological dynamics of enterovirus D68 in the US: implications for acute flaccid myelitis.
T2  - medRxiv
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.23.20069468
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32766605
ER  -
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