The strongest suspect has been enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that increased A.F.M. patients, substantiating a role in neurological disease requires evidence involving cerebrospinal fluid, which circulates in the brain and spinal cord. has found enteroviruses (EV-D68, EV-A71 or Coxsackievirus) in cerebrospinal fluid in only four of the 590 cases since 2014. Using a technique called phage display, each fragment was inserted into a bacteriophage, a type of virus that sticks to bacteria. Then the researchers incubated a “soup” of bacteriophages with a patient’s spinal fluid sample, Dr. Wilson said.

Source: New York Times October 21, 2019 15:00 UTC