Acute flaccid paralysis: The spectrum of a newly recognized complication of West Nile virus infection

Journal of Infection

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 120-127

  Saad, Mustafa ^a   Youssef, Souad ^a   Kirschke, David ^a,b   Shubair, Mohammed ^c   Haddadin, Dafer ^a   Myers, James ^a   Moorman, Jonathan ^a  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flaccid; Flavivirus; Neurologic; Paralysis; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MENINGISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEOCYTOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PARALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 22144447825     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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