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Muscle Tissue Damage and Recovery After EV71 Infection Correspond to Dynamic Macrophage Phenotypes.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2021
Lu Mei-Yi, Lin Ya-Lin, Kuo Yali, Chuang Chi-Fen, Wang Jen-Ren, Liao Fang
Abstract excerpt
Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a positive single-stranded RNA virus from the enterovirus genus of the Picornaviridae family. Most young children infected with EV71 develop mild symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease, but some develop severe symptoms with neurological involvement. Limb paralysis from EV71 infection is presumed to arise mainly from dysfunction of motor neurons in the spinal cord. However, EV71 also...
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