| acute respiratory infections due to enterovirus 68 in yamagata, japan between 2005 and 2010. | to clarify the epidemiology of enterovirus 68 (ev68), which is one of the most rarely identified enteroviruses, virus isolation and molecular screening using rt-pcr was performed on 6307 respiratory specimens collected at pediatric clinics in yamagata, japan between 2005 and 2010. in the years 2005-2009, 10, 1, 2, 0, and 2 (40) ev68-positive cases, respectively, were identified by rt-pcr. in 2010, 40 cases were identified altogether: 2 by isolation only, 26 by rt-pcr only, and 12 by both isolati ... | 2012 | 22309616 |