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Case Reports
. 2015 Jul-Sep;10(3):280-1.
doi: 10.4103/1817-1745.165716.

A rare cause of acute flaccid paralysis: Human coronaviruses

Cokyaman Turgay  1 , Tekin Emine  1 , Koken Ozlem  2 , S Paksu Muhammet  2 , A Tasdemir Haydar  1
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Case Reports

A rare cause of acute flaccid paralysis: Human coronaviruses

Cokyaman Turgay et al. J Pediatr Neurosci. 2015 Jul-Sep.

Abstract

Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is a life-threatening clinical entity characterized by weakness in the whole body muscles often accompanied by respiratory and bulbar paralysis. The most common cause is Gullian-Barre syndrome, but infections, spinal cord diseases, neuromuscular diseases such as myasthenia gravis, drugs and toxins, periodic hypokalemic paralysis, electrolyte disturbances, and botulism should be considered as in the differential diagnosis. Human coronaviruses (HCoVs) cause common cold, upper and lower respiratory tract disease, but in the literature presentation with the lower respiratory tract infection and AFP has not been reported previously. In this study, pediatric case admitted with lower respiratory tract infection and AFP, who detected for HCoV 229E and OC43 co-infection by the real-time polymerase chain reaction, has been reported for the first time.

Keywords: Acute flaccid paralysis; child; coronavirus 229E; coronavirus OC43.

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