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Background: Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is responsible for millions of infections. In the last decade, there has been an increase in the number of children requiring hospital or critical care admission due to severe respiratory illness. Nevertheless, the epidemiological and clinical importance of EV-D68 infections remains unclear.

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Case report: when two and ½ men go camping….

BMC Infect Dis

January 2017

Applied Microbiology Research, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Background: In patients, rapid identification of bacterial species may help to guide treatment at early stages. New protocols for the identification directly from positive blood culture flasks significantly helped in the presented case report.

Case Presentation: Two patients (a father and son) presented with diarrhea, malaise, and fever of 3 to 4 days duration.

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