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Emergence of enterovirus D68 clade D1, France, August to November 2018
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsLaurence Jossetlaurence.josset chu-lyon.fr
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Citation style for this article: . Emergence of enterovirus D68 clade D1, France, August to November 2018. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(3):pii=1800699. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.3.1800699 Received: 26 Dec 2018; Accepted: 16 Jan 2019
Abstract
We report a seasonal increase of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) cases in France, with 54 cases detected between 19 August and 14 November 2018. Molecular typing revealed that 20 of 32 of the isolates belonged to clade D1, only sporadically detected before in France. Median age of D1-cases was 42 years, 10 developed severe respiratory signs and one had neurological complications. The 2018-D1 viruses showed a genetic divergence of 3.34 % with D1 viruses identified previously.
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