1C81
category
Acute poliomyelitis
Definition
A disease of the nervous system, caused by human poliovirus. This disease commonly presents with a fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting, or stiffness of the neck and back. This disease may present with an acute onset of flaccid paralysis. Transmission is commonly by the faecal-oral route or direct contact. Confirmation is by identification of poliovirus in a faecal sample or by a lumbar puncture.
Also indexed as
Acute anterior polioencephalomyelitisAcute ascending poliomyelitisAcute atrophic infantile spinal paralysisAcute atrophic spinal paralysisAcute bulbar polioencephalitisAcute nonepidemic poliomyelitisAcute nonparalytic poliomyelitisAcute paralytic bulbar poliomyelitisAcute paralytic poliomyelitis, not elsewhere classifiedAcute paralytic poliomyelitis, vaccine-associatedAcute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, importedAcute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, indigenousAcute poliomyelitisBulbar poliomyelitis NOSHeine-Medin diseaseInfantile incomplete paralysisInfantile progressive bulbar paralysisInfantile spinal cord paralysisPM - [poliomyelitis]Polioencephalomyelitisabortive poliomyelitisacute anterior poliomyelitisacute non-paralytic poliomyelitisacute nonparalytic poliomyelitis, unspecified type poliovirusacute polioencephalitisacute polioencephalomyelitisacute progressive ascending poliomyelitisacute spinal cord paralysisacute spinal paralysisacute spinal poliomyelitisanterior acute poliomyelitis specified as nonparalyticanterior polioencephalomyelitisascending poliomyelitisbulbar polioencephalitischronic infantile bulbar paralysisepidemic acute poliomyelitisepidemic acute poliomyelitis specified as non paralyticimported wild virus paralytic poliomyelitis NOSindigenous wild virus paralytic poliomyelitis NOSinfantile bulbar paralysisinfantile complete paralysisinfantile spinal paralysisinfective paralysisnonepidemic poliomyelitisnonparalytic poliomyelitis NOSparalytic poliomyelitispolio NOSpolioencephalitispoliomyelitis encephalitispoliomyelitis with paralysisprogressive ascending poliomyelitisvaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis NOS