Enterovirus D68 Reemerges Globally as a Severe Pathogen Targeting Children.
Enterovirus D68 Reemerges Globally as a Severe Pathogen Targeting Children.
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肠道病毒 D68 在全球重新出现,成为针对儿童的严重病原体。
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10.1097/pcc.0000000000000961
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2016
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Randolph,AdrienneG
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Randolph,AdrienneG
States must pay attention to the plight of poor children in the tropics because the solutions to their problems are the solutions to ours. Two decades later, unprecedented mass migrations, rapid air transit, climate change and the looming threat of infections globally, renders indifference an antiquated response (2). That many of us endorse sentiments by Dr. Guerrant (1) is evidenced by the attention to global health issues at the World Congress in Toronto and the formation of a Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators subgroup in global health. Problems related to poverty and access to health are universal, those that are least able to pay are subjected to the most oppressive fees, even in the United States (3).Division, in 2013, the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigator’s network developed a group of 39 US PICUs poised to collect clinical data during an outbreak of a novel influenza or emerging viral pathogen called the “Pediatric Intensive Care Influenza and Emerging Severe Pathogens (PICFlu-ESP)” subgroup. A single institutional review board (IRB) was set up across institutions, and 24 of 39 sites agreed to rely on it. Webbased data collection forms were developed in a modular fashion, facilitating rapid modifications based on pathogen and clinical characteristics. The plan was for data to be sent to government collaborators to provide real-time tracking of the outbreak like was done during the 2009 pandemic (7). Waiver of consent was approved by the IRBs for data collection in the event that a national emergency was declared by a government agency. Although promising, the EV-D68 outbreak revealed some gaps in the PICFlu-ESP subgroup’s surveillance model. Because consent is waived, samples from patients are not collected under the current IRB approved protocol unless they are for clinical purposes. Systematic viral testing and banking of respiratory samples for further evaluation is a prerequisite for confirming the pathogen and evaluating genetic drift. Funding was also an issue; contracts for payment to support data collection take time and must be done in advance to capture a rapidly emerging pathogen that rises and falls within months. Even if site contracts were in place, government funds would need to be available and quickly released. Given the inability to predict when outbreaks will occur, a more optimal approach may be to perform ongoing viral surveillance in sentinel PICUs. Until then, PICUs like that of Rao et al (8) that routinely perform viral multiplex testing and bank respiratory samples provide a valuable resource.