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

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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Autores principales: Macesic, N., Hall, V., Mahony, A., Hueston, L., Ng, G., Macdonell, R., Hughes, A., Fitt, G., Grayson, M. L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4716344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26788545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv190
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author Macesic, N.
Hall, V.
Mahony, A.
Hueston, L.
Ng, G.
Macdonell, R.
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Grayson, M. L.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-47163442016-01-19 Acute Flaccid Paralysis: The New, The Old, and The Preventable Macesic, N. Hall, V. Mahony, A. Hueston, L. Ng, G. Macdonell, R. Hughes, A. Fitt, G. Grayson, M. L. Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports 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. Oxford University Press 2015-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4716344/ /pubmed/26788545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv190 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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