Detection of diphtheritic polyneuropathy by acute flaccid paralysis surveillance, India

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1368-1373

  Mateen, Farrah J ^a,b,d   Bahl, Sunil ^b   Khera, Ajay ^c   Sutter, Roland W ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DIPHTHERITIC POLYNEUROPATHY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; PARALYSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; VACCINATION;

ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BACTERIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; DIPHTHERITIC POLYNEUROPATHY; GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; NEUROLOGY; PARALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PARALYSIS; POLYNEUROPATHIES; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84882666207     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1909.130117     Document Type: Article

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