1C81
Acute poliomyelitis
Poliomielite aguda
CategoryDefinition
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.
Index Terms
Acute poliomyelitisacute spinal poliomyelitispolio NOSPM - [poliomyelitis]Heine-Medin diseaseepidemic acute poliomyelitisAcute paralytic poliomyelitis, vaccine-associatedvaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis NOSAcute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, importedimported wild virus paralytic poliomyelitis NOSAcute paralytic poliomyelitis, wild virus, indigenousindigenous wild virus paralytic poliomyelitis NOSAcute nonparalytic poliomyelitisacute non-paralytic poliomyelitisacute nonparalytic poliomyelitis, unspecified type poliovirusanterior acute poliomyelitis specified as nonparalyticepidemic acute poliomyelitis specified as non paralyticabortive poliomyelitisnonparalytic poliomyelitis NOSAcute paralytic poliomyelitis, not elsewhere classifiedacute spinal cord paralysisacute spinal paralysispoliomyelitis with paralysisparalytic poliomyelitisinfective paralysisAcute atrophic spinal paralysisAcute atrophic infantile spinal paralysisAcute paralytic bulbar poliomyelitisBulbar poliomyelitis NOSInfantile progressive bulbar paralysischronic infantile bulbar paralysisinfantile bulbar paralysisInfantile spinal cord paralysisinfantile complete paralysisinfantile spinal paralysisInfantile incomplete paralysisAcute ascending poliomyelitisacute progressive ascending poliomyelitisascending poliomyelitisprogressive ascending poliomyelitisAcute anterior polioencephalomyelitisacute anterior poliomyelitisanterior polioencephalomyelitisAcute bulbar polioencephalitisbulbar polioencephalitisAcute nonepidemic poliomyelitisnonepidemic poliomyelitisPolioencephalomyelitisacute polioencephalomyelitispoliomyelitis encephalitispolioencephalitisacute polioencephalitis