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ArticleViruses2025

Return of the Biennial Circulation of Enterovirus D68 in Colorado Children in 2024 Following the Large 2022 Outbreak.

Hai Nguyen-Tran, Molly Butler, Dennis Simmons, Samuel R Dominguez, Kevin Messacar

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Article in Viruses, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Prevalence and epidemiology of enterovirus species in a pediatric oncology patient population.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2025
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Hai Nguyen-TranDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13001 E 17th Place, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4878-4057
Molly ButlerChildren's Hospital Colorado, 13123 E 16th Ave, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-3820-4377
Dennis SimmonsChildren's Hospital Colorado, 13123 E 16th Ave, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-1422-3803
Samuel R DominguezDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13001 E 17th Place, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Kevin MessacarDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13001 E 17th Place, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5830-3491

Funding

CDC HHS This work was supported in part by grant funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but they had no part in the design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of the study.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) caused large biennial cyclical outbreaks of respiratory disease and cases of acute flaccid myelitis from 2014 to 2018 in the USA. An anticipated outbreak did not occur in 2020, likely due to non-pharmaceutical interventions targeting the COVID-19 pandemic. A large respiratory disease outbreak occurred again in 2022, but uncertainty remained regarding if circulation of EV-D68 would return to the pre-pandemic patterns. We conducted prospective active surveillance of clinical respiratory specimens from Colorado children for EV-D68 in 2023 and 2024. A subset of residual specimens positive for rhinovirus/enterovirus (RV/EV) were tested for EV-D68 via a validated in-house EV-D68 reverse transcription-PCR assay. During epi weeks 18-44 in 2023, 525 residual specimens positive for RV/EV all tested negative for EV-D68. In 2024, during epi weeks 18-44, 10 (1.8%) of the 546 RV/EV-positive specimens were EV-D68-positive. The EV-D68-positive cases were predominantly young children (median age 4.8 years) receiving treatment with asthma medications. Following the 2022 EV-D68 outbreak, an anticipated outbreak did not occur in 2023. While EV-D68 was detected in 2024, the number of cases was not as significant as in prior outbreak years. Continued surveillance for EV-D68 will be important to understand the future dynamics of EV-D68 circulation and prepare for future outbreaks.

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Disease OutbreaksEnterovirus D, HumanEnterovirus InfectionsRespiratory Tract InfectionsAdolescentCentral Nervous System Viral DiseasesChildChild, PreschoolColoradoCOVID-19FemaleHumansInfantMaleMyelitisNeuromuscular Diseasesenterovirus D68respiratory diseasesurveillance

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PMID40431685
PMCPMC12116100

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