Flaccid Paralysis
Acute flaccid paralysis
... Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) is a syndrome characterized by rapidly evolving diffuse muscle weakness (critical course), muscular hypotonia, and deep or abolished hypoactive reflexes ...Acute Flaccid ...
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Study of 57 cases of acute flaccid paralysis in a tertiary care hospital in india
... Most common etiology of AFP in our study is GBS, which is in contrast to snake envenomation in Kaushik, Rupesh et al. study, this is perhaps because two thirds of study population in that study was from rural population, ...
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Clinical Reasoning: A 2-year-old child with acute flaccid paralysis
... Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is a clinical syndrome characterized by rapid onset of weakness due to various conditions and the term flaccid indicates lack of corticospinal tract signs on examination ...
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Metagenomic Analyses of Viruses in Stool Samples from Children with Acute Flaccid Paralysis
... We analyzed viral nucleic acids in stool samples collected from 35 South Asian children with nonpolio acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). Sequence-independent reverse transcription and PCR amplification of ...
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Prognosis of West Nile virus associated acute flaccid paralysis: a case series
... Acute flaccid paralysis was diagnosed if patients had a positive West Nile virus IgM antibody capture enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay confirmed by plaque reduction neutralization assay [2], associated ...
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Characteristics of Acute Flaccid Paralysis Reported by the Surveillance System and Verified by WHO Officer in Akwa Ibom State Nigeria, 2006 2012
... Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) was adopted by World Health Organization (WHO) in 1988 as a key pillar used in monitoring progress towards the global polio eradication ...acute flaccid paralysis ...
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Surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis in the Marches region (Italy): 1997–2007
... Background: The last case of poliomyelitis due to transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus occurred in Italy in 1982, however, it is important to guarantee a high quality surveillance as there is a risk of importation ...
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Evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Mwenezi district, Masvingo, 2018: a descriptive study
... acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveil- lance is based on the ability to detect at least one case per year of non-polio AFP for every 100,000 children under the age of 15 years ...
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Distribution Pattern of the Non Polio Enterovirus (NPEV) Rate in Children with Acute Flaccid Paralysis Reported to the Surveillance System in Nigeria 2010 2015
... of flaccid paralysis in some cases or, if not related to flaccid paralysis, because they are shed with stool as innocent bystanders [5] ...showed paralysis among 1967-1970 ...
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Population sensitivity of acute flaccid paralysis and environmental surveillance for serotype 1 poliovirus in Pakistan: an observational study
... Abbreviations AFP: Acute flaccid paralysis; BF: Bayes factors; ES: Environmental surveillance; FOR: False omission rate; GPEI: Global Polio Eradication Initiative; VDPV: Vaccine-derived [r] ...
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An epidemiological analysis of acute flaccid paralysis and its surveillance system in Iraq, 1997 2011
... In 1988, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), aiming to eradicate polio by the year 2000 [3]. Although polio outbreaks continue to occur, polio cases have witnessed ...
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Clinicoetiological Study of Acute Flaccid Paralysis in Children under 15 Years Age Group
... Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) is a complex clinical syndrome with broad array of potential etiologies and clinical ...or paralysis were included in this ...
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Non polio enteroviruses in faeces of children diagnosed with acute flaccid paralysis in Nigeria
... Non polio enteroviruses in faeces of children diagnosed with acute flaccid paralysis in Nigeria RESEARCH Open Access Non polio enteroviruses in faeces of children diagnosed with acute flaccid paralysi[.] ...
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Clinical Profile of Acute Flaccid Paralysis
... Clinical Profile of Acute Flaccid Paralysis Clinical Profile of Acute Flaccid Paralysis C H Rasul, FCPS', P L Das, M Phil', SAlam, MBBS', S Ahmed, MBBS*', M Ahmed, MBBS"', *Khulna Medical College, Khu[.] ...
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Gender Dimensions of Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance in Nigeria
... Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) from three Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the security challenged state of Borno were confirmed as WPV ...of paralysis on 28th October 2016 was confirmed in Sokoto ...
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Acute flaccid paralysis in ninewa province in north of Iraq
... Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) is a clinical manifestation characterized by weakness or paralysis and reduced muscle tone without other obvious cause ...
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Molecular characterization of enterovirus A71 in children with acute flaccid paralysis in the Philippines
... Background: Several inactivated enterovirus-A71 (EV-A71) vaccines are currently licensed in China; however, the development of additional EV-A71 vaccines is ongoing, necessitating extensive analysis of the molecular ...
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An evaluation of the sensitivity of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance for poliovirus infection in Australia
... and have mechanisms to detect and respond to the intro- duction of wild poliovirus [12]. Prior to the 2007 impor- tation of wild poliovirus into Australia via a traveller returning from Pakistan [13], the last recorded ...
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Epidemiology and clinical findings associated with enteroviral acute flaccid paralysis in Pakistan
... the paralysis progressed to peak within 4 days of onset, the progression took more than 4 days in 16 patients (8%) while no credible information could be obtained for 37 patients ...of paralysis, residual ...
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Characteristics of wild polio virus outbreak investigation and response in Ethiopia in 2013–2014: implications for prevention of outbreaks due to importations
... institutions were reviewed. We also assessed knowledge of health workers on surveillance and immunization in- cluding active case search for additional cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) both in health ...
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