Enterovirus D68 infection in a cluster of children with acute flaccid myelitis, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016.

Objective: To report a outbreak of 11 cases of acute asymmetric flaccid myelopathy due to spinal motor neuron injury.

Material And Methods: Eleven children, six male, with a mean age of 3 years presented with acute flaccid myelitis. We analyzed clinical features, etiology, neuroradiological images, treatment, and outcome.

Unusual increase of cases of myelitis in a pediatric hospital in Argentina.

Introduction: The association between enterovirus D68 and acute flaccid myelitis was first described in the United States in 2014. Since then, sporadic cases have been reported in Canada and Europe. This study describes a series of cases of acute flaccid myelitis at Hospital de Pediatría "Prof.