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Enterovirus D68 VP1 and VP3 Determine Neurotropism in Human Spinal Cord Organoids.
Viruses - 28 May 2026
Packard Jessica E, Jones Jennifer E, Yovel Gal, Freeman Megan Culler
Abstract excerpt
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is a non-polio enterovirus that can cause a polio-like paralysis condition, acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). EV-D68-associated AFM cases waned in the US after 2018, and the reasons for this are unknown. It has recently been demonstrated that EV-D68 containing point mutations in viral structural proteins VP1 and VP3 resulted in decreased paralysis in different neonatal mouse models. However,...
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