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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: João André Alves Silva, M.D. [2]

Risk Factors

• EB-68 may infect any person, however, infants, children and teenagers are more likely to develop disease manifestations, due to lack of previous immunity against the virus.
• Patients with asthma, specially children, are at increase risk of developing severe symptoms with enterovirus 68 infection, and the exacerbation of asthma may require hospital admission.