The Lancet infectious diseases
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Enterovirus D68 was implicated in a widespread outbreak of severe respiratory illness across the USA in 2014 and has also been reported sporadically in patients with acute flaccid myelitis. We aimed to investigate the association between enterovirus D68 infection and acute flaccid myelitis during the 2014 enterovirus D68 respiratory outbreak in the USA. ⋯ National Institutes of Health, University of California, Abbott Laboratories, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma ovis cause human infections. We investigated the potential for human pathogenicity of a newly discovered Anaplasma species infecting goats in China. ⋯ Natural Science Foundation of China and the US National Institutes of Health.