Catalog
Acute poliomyelitis
Link to WHO Definition
Acute poliomyelitis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/588527933
A disease of the nervous system, caused by human poliovirus. This disease commonly presents with a fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting, or stiffness of the neck and back. This disease may present with an acute onset of flaccid paralysis. Transmission is commonly by the faecal-oral route or direct contact. Confirmation is by identification of poliovirus in a faecal sample or by a lumbar puncture.
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Children
- Acute nonparalytic poliomyelitis
- Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, imported
- Acute anterior polioencephalomyelitis
- Acute bulbar polioencephalitis
- Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, not elsewhere classified
- Acute nonepidemic poliomyelitis
- Polioencephalomyelitis
- Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, indigenous
- Acute ascending poliomyelitis
- Acute paralytic poliomyelitis, vaccine-associated