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Acute Flaccid Paralysis Epidemic Research in East Azerbaijan Province [PDF]

Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2012
Background and objectives : Current levels of AFP care system have created the possibility to demonstrate the significant decrease in pathogenesis of poliomyelitis.
FrouzVarshochiani, Saeid Dastgiri
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Hypokalemic Paresis in Adolescent: A Case Report

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2019
Familial hypokalaemic periodic paralysis is a rare autosomal dominant neuromuscular disease characterized by episodic attacks of flaccid paralysis with concomitant hypokalaemia. We present a case of a 15-year-old male adolescent observed in the pediatric
Ana Catarina Carvalho, Joana Matos, Susana Lira, Ana Reis   +3 more
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Enterovirus D68 Subclade B3 in Children with Acute Flaccid Paralysis in West Africa, 2016

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
We tested for enterovirus D68 in fecal samples collected during June–September 2016 from 567 patients with acute flaccid paralysis in 7 West Africa nations. Children
Amary Fall, Ndack Ndiaye, Kevin Messacar, Ousmane Kebe, Mamadou Malado Jallow, Hamid Harouna, Davy Evrard Kiori, Sara Sy, Déborah Goudiaby, Mohamed Dia, Mbayame Ndiaye Niang, Kader Ndiaye, Ndongo Dia   +12 more
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Flaccid quadriparesis with raised creatine kinase in Guillain-Barré syndrome: a case report with review of literature [PDF]

Journal of Neurocritical Care, 2021
Background Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an immune-mediated inflammatory polyneuropathy characterized by acute flaccid paralysis. Elevated creatine kinase (CK) levels in GBS have been reported to be transient, and levels vary from mild to severe ...
Bandari Mahesh, Abhishek Pathak, Rameshwar Nath Chaurasia, Anand Kumar, Varun Kumar Singh   +4 more
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ANALISIS STRATEGI ENDGAME POLIO BERDASARKAN SURVEILANS ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS (AFP)

Ekono Insentif, 2021
Abstrak - Ilmu dan teknologi yang semakin berkembang memberikan manfaat yang baik bagi kehidupan termasuk dalam bidang kesehatan. Perkembangan dalam bidang kesehatan salah satunya dibuktikan dalam pemberantasan Virus Polio di dunia.
Andriani Ulpah, Umi Narimawati, Nurdin Nurdin   +2 more
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Acute Flaccid Paralysis: The New, The Old, and The Preventable [PDF]

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2015
AbstractAcute 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.
Macesic, N, Hall, V, Mahony, A, Hueston, L, Ng, G, Macdonell, R, Hughes, A, Fitt, G, Grayson, ML   +8 more
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Neuroinvasive West Nile Virus Disease in an Elderly Patient with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Treated with R-CHOP Therapy: A Case Report

Balkan Medical Journal, 2019
Background: West Nile virus is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) and emerging cause of significant illness in European and Mediterranean countries.
Barış Arslan, Hasan Murat Gündüz, Nurdan Ünlü, Gökhan Çavuş, Dilek Menemenlioğlu   +4 more
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Evaluation of community-based surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis cases in a security-compromised setting, Tillabéri Health Region, Niger, 2021 [PDF]

Introduction: Community-based surveillance (CBS) is based on community engagement in disease and public health event surveillance. Enhancing the CBS project has been implemented since 2020 through a Community Relays’ network in a security-compromised ...
Sayadi Sani, Hamidou Harouna, Oumarou Maidadji, Aboubacar Ali Harouna, Rebecca Babirye, Kevin Mugenyi, Issifou Djibo, Mountari Kollé, Mumeh Cletus Fumbi, Yaya Ballayira, Agballa Mébiny-Essoh Tchalla Abalo, Ibrahima Na Andy Chaïbou, Simon Antara, Hamani Samba, Tassiou Ibrahim, Ibrahima Hamadou   +15 more
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Clinical and biochemical features of hypokalemic paralysis: a study from rural Eastern India

The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, 2023
Key Message Hypokalemic paralysis is an important differential diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis that rapidly recovers with treatment. Most of the cases are primary, usually a calcium channel disorder (Type I) or very rarely a sodium channel disorder (
Hilal Ahmad Ganie, Waseem Raja Dar, Annada Prasad Bhattacharya, Arjimand Yaqoob   +3 more
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Acute flaccid paralysis due to rabies

Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences, 2009
TWO CLINICAL FORMS OF RABIES ARE RECOGNIZE: i) a furious form associated with classical signs of excitation or phobic symptoms, ii) Dumb rabies (paralytic rabies) characterized by progressive paralysis without an initial furious phase wherein distinction from Guillain-Barré Syndrome may be difficult.
Ghosh, J. B., Roy, Mahua, Lahiri, Kalyan, Bala, A. K., Roy, Mahua   +4 more
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