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. 2015 Dec 9;3(1):ofv190.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofv190. eCollection 2016 Jan.

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

N Macesic  1 , V Hall  2 , A Mahony  3 , L Hueston  4 , G Ng  5 , R Macdonell  6 , A Hughes  5 , G Fitt  7 , M L Grayson  8
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Acute Flaccid Paralysis: The New, The Old, and The Preventable

N Macesic et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. .

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    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Open Forum Infect Dis. 2017 Aug 5;4(3):ofx019. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofx019. eCollection 2017 Summer. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2017. PMID: 28795078 Free PMC article.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: West Nile virus; enterovirus; paralysis; polio.

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Figure 1.
Axial T2-weighted magnetic resonance image of the cervical spine at C5 level demonstrates high T2 signal corresponding to central cervical cord gray matter greater on the left than the right, particularly involving the anterior horn cells (arrow).
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