A ten-year retrospective evaluation of acute flaccid myelitis at 5 pediatric centers in the United States, 2005–2014

• Margaret M. Cortese ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mcortese@cdc.gov

  Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3495-6620

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• Anita K. Kambhampati,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Contracting Agency to the Division of Viral Diseases, IHRC, Inc., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Jennifer E. Schuster,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Zaid Alhinai,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Child Health, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Alpert Medical School, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Gary R. Nelson,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Primary Children’s Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Gloria J. Guzman Perez-Carrillo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neuroradiology Section, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Arastoo Vossough,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Michael A. Smit,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Alpert Medical School, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Robert C. McKinstry,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neuroradiology Section, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Timothy Zinkus,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Kevin R. Moore,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Primary Children’s Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Jeffrey M. Rogg,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Alpert Medical School, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Meghan S. Candee,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Primary Children’s Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• James J. Sejvar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Sarah E. Hopkins

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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