Household Transmission of Enterovirus D68, Washington and Oregon, United States, 2022-2024.

Authors

Pavitra Roychoudhury, Erica Wetzler, Anna Elias-Warren, Katherine L Hoffman, Alex Harteloo, Hyeong Geon Kim, Kevin Kong, Hong Xie, Jolene Gov, Margaret G Mills, Collrane Frivold, Madison Hollcroft, Mark Drummond, Tara Hatchie, Erica Clark, Brenna Ehmen, Peter D Han, Luis Gamboa, Sally Grindstaff, Jeremy Stone, Alexander L Greninger, Lea M Starita, Christina Lockwood, Janet A Englund, Marco Carone, Ana A Weil, Sacha L Reich, Richard A Mularski, Mark A Schmidt, Jennifer L Kuntz, Allison L Naleway, Helen Y Chu

Published in

Emerging infectious diseases. Volume 32. Issue 7. Pages 1182-1187.

Abstract

During 2022-2024, a total of 35 of 1,040 households had a distinct symptomatic index case of enterovirus D68; estimated symptomatic secondary infection rate was 13.6%. Sequences from patients within households clustered closely; we observed 0-2 pairwise nucleotide differences between household cases 6-14 days apart.

PMID:
42366172
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 29 Jun 2026.

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