id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-270012-toompiz4 González-Sanz, Rubén Enterovirus D68-associated respiratory and neurological illness in Spain, 2014–2018 2019-10-01 .txt text/plain 3551 191 50 During 2014, enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) outbreaks were described globally, causing severe respiratory diseases in children and, in some cases, subsequent paralysis. In this study, the type characterization of enterovirus (EV) detected in respiratory illnesses and the epidemiology and clinical association of EV-D68 infections in Spain over a five-year period were described. Therefore, the objectives of the present study were first, to identify the genotype of the EV detected in clinical samples collected from hospitalized patients with different respiratory diseases over a 5-year period, and second, to describe the molecular epidemiology and clinical characteristics of EV-D68 infections in Spain. Regarding patients with neurological symptoms, eight children and one adult were diagnosed with meningitis or meningoencephalitis and the remaining eight children were finally described as acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases. Two cases of acute severe flaccid myelitis associated with enterovirus D68 infection in children ./cache/cord-270012-toompiz4.txt ./txt/cord-270012-toompiz4.txt