DISEASE: Acute poliomyelitis


Entry
H00376                      Disease                                
Name
Acute poliomyelitis;
Polio
Description
Acute poliomyelitis, often called polio, is an infectious disease caused by any of the three serotypes of poliovirus, an enterovirus in the Picornaviridae family of +ssRNA viruses. Only a small proportion of poliovirus infections results in paralytic poliomyelitis due to the viral invasion to the central nervous system.
Category
Infectious disease
Brite
Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
 Viral infections
  Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
   H00376  Acute poliomyelitis
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
 01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Viral infections of the central nervous system
   1C81  Acute poliomyelitis
    H00376  Acute poliomyelitis
Pathogen
Poliovirus 1 [GN:T40344]
Poliovirus 2 [GN:T40345]
Poliovirus 3 [GN:T40346]
Other DBs
ICD-11: 1C81
ICD-10: A80
MeSH: D011051
MedlinePlus: 001402
Reference
PMID:20978089
  Authors
Nathanson N, Kew OM
  Title
From emergence to eradication: the epidemiology of poliomyelitis deconstructed.
  Journal
Am J Epidemiol 172:1213-29 (2010)
DOI:10.1093/aje/kwq320

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