Acute poliomyelitis

Definition:

Acute poliomyelitis, often called polio, is an infectious disease caused by any of the three serotypes of poliovirus, an enterovirus in the Picornaviridae family of +ssRNA viruses. Only a small proportion of poliovirus infections results in paralytic poliomyelitis due to the viral invasion to the central nervous system.

References:

[1]. Neal Nathanson, et al. From emergence to eradication: the epidemiology of poliomyelitis deconstructed. Am J Epidemiol. 2010 Dec 1;172(11):1213-29. [Content Brief]

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