Molecular characterization of enteroviruses in patients with acute respiratory infection and influenza-like illness in the Central African Republic revealed mainly polioviruses and other enteric enterovirus types.

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Enteroviruses (EVs) that infect humans cause a broad range of pathologies, notably neurological, respiratory, cutaneous and enteric diseases, leading to morbidity and mortality, especially in young children. These pathologies particularly affect countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In the last decades, some EVs with a marked respiratory tropism have emerged as source of acute respiratory illnesses: EV-D68 has...

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• Asymptomatic Infections
• Enterovirus
• Enterovirus Infections
• Influenza, Human
• Nasopharynx
• Respiratory Tract Infections
• Sentinel Surveillance
• Virus Diseases

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Literature Corpus work

bf240f5f-d778-5df9-a69b-016e9aa0e29d

DOI

10.1099/acmi.0.001198.v2