Open AccessAcute flaccid paralysis due to rabies
Author(s) -
Jayanta Ghosh,
Mahua Roy,
Kalyan Lahiri,
Ashok Kumar Bala
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of pediatric neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1998-3948
pISSN - 1817-1745
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1745.49106
Subject(s) - rabies , medicine , paralysis , flaccid paralysis , acute flaccid paralysis , pediatrics , vaccination , virology , virus , surgery , poliovirus
TWO CLINICAL FORMS OF RABIES ARE RECOGNIZE: i) a furious form associated with classical signs of excitation or phobic symptoms, ii) Dumb rabies (paralytic rabies) characterized by progressive paralysis without an initial furious phase wherein distinction from Guillain-Barré Syndrome may be difficult. Paralytic rabies is more common in persons who have received postexposure vaccination. We report here the diagnostic dilemma of two cases of acute flaccid paralysis due to rabies.