Table 2. Compilation of the pediatric patients with severe acute flaccid paralysis examined in the Robert Koch Institute in 2016 (including patients listed in Table 1).

Case	Age(years)	Sex	Place of residence	Clinical findings	Onset of symptoms	Enterovirus detection in stool
1	1.8	male	Hamburg	Pred. proximal pareses; requiring mechanical ventilation	March 2016	n.d.
2	2.0	female	East Wuerttemberg	Right-sided hemiparesis, no head control, myelitis	July 2016	ECHO virus 30
3	4.8	male	Lower Bavaria	AFP, meningitis	July 2016	n.d.
4	8.6	female	n.a.	AFP (transverse myelitis)	August 2016	n.d.
5	2.7	female	Hannover region	n.a. *2	August 2016	n.d.
6	10.0	male	Upper Bavaria	Polio-like, tetraplegia	August 2016	n.d.
7	3.7	female	Rhineland	AFP (left arm), oral antibiotic therapy for pneumonia	August 2016	n.d.
8	2.8	male	Lower Bavaria	AFP (arm), upper airway infection, paradoxical breathing, no head control	August 2016	Coxsackievirus A2
9	14.3	male	Upper Bavaria	AFP-proximal and distal muscle weakness L>R	August 2016	n.d.
10	2.3	female	Rhenish Hesse	AFP (lower extremities), bronchopneumonia (10 days earlier)	August 2016	Enterovirus D68
11	6.3	male	Lower Saxony	AFP (lower extremities), respir. disease, myelitis	August 2016	n.d.
12	2.2	female	Rhineland	AFP, meningitis	September 2016	Enterovirus A71
13	1.7	female	Hannover region	AFP	October 2016	Coxsackievirus A2
14	4.5	female	n.a.	AFP, requiring mechanical ventilation	n.a.	pos*
15	3.1	male	Upper Swabia	Cervical myelitis, facial nerve paralysis	n.a.	n.d.
16	2.4	male	n.a.	AFP, myelitis	n.a.	pos*

*, without typing; AFP, acute flaccid myelitis; L, left; n.a, not available; n.d., not detected; pos, positive; pred., predominantly; R, right