Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis and postpolio syndrome: an Italian Cutter Incident

Post-polio syndrome is a condition characterized by increased muscle weakness, atrophy, fatigue and pain developing several years after the acute polio event. We describe a 52-year-old patient who experienced post-polio syndrome; he had contracted acute paralytic poliomyelitis at 12 months of age, s...

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Autores principales: Lusi, Elena Angela, Guarascio, Paolo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25057364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2042533313511241
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description Post-polio syndrome is a condition characterized by increased muscle weakness, atrophy, fatigue and pain developing several years after the acute polio event. We describe a 52-year-old patient who experienced post-polio syndrome; he had contracted acute paralytic poliomyelitis at 12 months of age, shortly after the third dose of Salk polio vaccine.
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spelling pubmed-40126812014-07-23 Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis and postpolio syndrome: an Italian Cutter Incident Lusi, Elena Angela Guarascio, Paolo JRSM Open Case Report Post-polio syndrome is a condition characterized by increased muscle weakness, atrophy, fatigue and pain developing several years after the acute polio event. We describe a 52-year-old patient who experienced post-polio syndrome; he had contracted acute paralytic poliomyelitis at 12 months of age, shortly after the third dose of Salk polio vaccine. SAGE Publications 2014-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4012681/ /pubmed/25057364 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2042533313511241 Text en © The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).
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Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis and postpolio syndrome: an Italian Cutter Incident
title Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis and postpolio syndrome: an Italian Cutter Incident
title_full Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis and postpolio syndrome: an Italian Cutter Incident
title_fullStr Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis and postpolio syndrome: an Italian Cutter Incident
title_full_unstemmed Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis and postpolio syndrome: an Italian Cutter Incident
title_short Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis and postpolio syndrome: an Italian Cutter Incident
title_sort vaccine-derived poliomyelitis and postpolio syndrome: an italian cutter incident
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25057364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2042533313511241
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