Acute flaccid myelitis in German children in 2016 - The return of polio?;Akute schlaffe Myelitis bei Kindern im Jahr 2016 - Rückkehr von "Polio"?

Deutsches Arzteblatt International

Volumn 114, Issue 33-34, 2017, Pages 551-557

  Hübner, Johannes ^a,e   Kruse, Bernd ^b   Christen, Hans Jürgen ^c   Weidenmann, Jürgen ^c   Weiner, Viktoria ^c   Schöne Backe, Jan Christoph ^c   Eichinger, Anna ^a   Diedrich, Sabine ^d   Müller Felber, Wolfgang ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Klinik für Kinder und Jugendmedizin   (Germany)

^c Kinder und Jugendlkrankenhaus AUF DER BULT   (Germany)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e Abteilung für Virologie und Rickettsiologie Institut für Mikrobiologie Bundeswehr Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE FLACCID MYELITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; MYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MYELITIS; PARALYSIS; POLIOMYELITIS;

EID: 85028746108     PISSN: 18660452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2017.0551     Document Type: Article

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