Acute Flaccid Paralysis: The New, The Old, and The Preventable | Zendy

Nenad Macesic | Zendy; Victoria Hall | Zendy; Andrew A. Mahony | Zendy; Linda Hueston | Zendy; Gabriel Ng | Zendy; Richard Macdonell | Zendy; Abbey J. Hughes | Zendy; Gregory Fitt | Zendy; M. Lindsay Grayson | Zendy

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Acute Flaccid Paralysis: The New, The Old, and The Preventable

Author(s) -

Nenad Macesic,

Victoria Hall,

Andrew A. Mahony,

Linda Hueston,

Gabriel Ng,

Richard Macdonell,

Abbey J. Hughes,

Gregory Fitt,

M. Lindsay Grayson

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

open forum infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546

H-Index - 35

ISSN - 2328-8957

DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofv190

Subject(s) - acute flaccid paralysis , medicine , poliomyelitis , flaccid paralysis , outbreak , paralysis , virology , west nile virus , epidemiology , poliomyelitis eradication , pediatrics , poliovirus , virus , surgery

Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) has a changing epidemiology with ongoing polio outbreaks and emerging causes such as nonpolio enteroviruses and West Nile virus (WNV). We report a case of AFP from the Horn of Africa that was initially classified as probable polio but subsequently found to be due to WNV.

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