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Resources and references on non-polio enteroviruses

Laboratory testing of non-polio enteroviruses and other picornaviruses

Table of specimen types, minimum amounts, collection, storage, and shipping of non-polio enteroviruses.

Pregnant women have a greater chance of being infected if they do not have immunity (protection) from previous exposures to non-polio enteroviruses.

You can help protect yourself and others from non-polio enterovirus infections by washing your hands and disinfecting surfaces. There is no specific treatment for non-polio enterovirus infection.

You can get infected with non-polio enteroviruses by having close contact with an infected person. Also spread by touching objects or surfaces that have the virus on them and then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes.

In the United States, people can get infected with non-polio enteroviruses at any time of the year. However, it is more common in the summer and fall.

Refugees being resettled in the United States, unlike immigrants seeking residency, have not been subject to immunization requirements (1). Without immunization, refugee communities overseas and in the United States are vulnerable to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases that can disrupt the resettlement process and require costly public health responses (2,3). CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine has regulatory authority to prevent communicable disease importation among the approximately 70,000 refugees resettled in the United States each year.

Julia E. Painter, PhD1,2, Allison Taylor Walker, PhD1,2, Jarratt Pytell2, Motusa Tuileama Nua3, Siitia Soliai-Lemusu3, Eric Mintz, MD2, Ibne Ali, PhD2, Michele Parsons, MS2, Haley Martin2, Michael Beach, PhD2, Anna Bowen, MD2, Jennifer Cope, MD2 (Author affiliations at end of text).

On January 13, 2015, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr).