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    Poliomyelitis (/ˌpoʊlioʊˌmaɪəˈlaɪtɪs/ POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Approximately...
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    Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened...
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    vaccines has eliminated wild poliomyelitis in all but two countries (Afghanistan and Pakistan), the legacy of poliomyelitis remains in the development of...
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    cessation of circulation of the poliovirus and hence elimination of the poliomyelitis (polio) it causes, is the aim of a multinational public health effort...
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  • this vital research possible. Founded in 1952 as the National Fund for Poliomyelitis Research by Duncan Guthrie, the charity's original aim was the eradication...
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  • Pakistan is one of the two remaining countries in the world where poliomyelitis (polio) is still categorized as an endemic viral infection, the other...
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    Poliomyelitis (often simply called polio) is an acute viral infection that involves the gastrointestinal tract and occasionally the central nervous system...
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    Gonorrhea infection of the newborn parainfluenza (PIV) infection pertussis poliomyelitis prenatal Listeria Group B streptoccus infection Tay–Sachs disease tetanus...
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    was consistent with poliomyelitis... If Lovett had discovered a low white blood cell count, he would have doubted that poliomyelitis was the cause of Roosevelt's...
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    Post-polio syndrome (PPS, poliomyelitis sequelae) is a group of latent symptoms of poliomyelitis (polio), occurring at about a 25–40% rate (latest data...
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  • to: Poliovirus, the virus that causes poliomyelitis Post-polio syndrome, long term complication of poliomyelitis Polio vaccine, a vaccine that induces...
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  • attenuated J07BF01 Poliomyelitis oral, monovalent live attenuated J07BF02 Poliomyelitis oral, trivalent, live attenuated J07BF03 Poliomyelitis, trivalent, inactivated...
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    Poliovirus, the causative agent of polio (also known as poliomyelitis), is a serotype of the species Enterovirus C, in the family of Picornaviridae. There...
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    and to maximize sensitivity so that every poliomyelitis case is detected, in 2005, the Global Poliomyelitis Eradication Initiative adapted AFP as a surveillance...
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    Herpesviral meningitis Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2 Myelitis Poliovirus Poliomyelitis Post-polio syndrome HTLV-I Tropical spastic paraparesis Eye Cytomegalovirus...
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    Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin...
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    systemic diseases including hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, poliomyelitis, human papillomavirus (HPV) and herpes simplex virus; parasites including...
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    the life of a 10-year-old boy from New Deer, Aberdeenshire who had poliomyelitis. Despite this success, Henderson was reprimanded for secretly using...
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  • myelitis: a polio-like syndrome that causes muscle weakness and paralysis. Poliomyelitis: disease caused by viral infection in the gray matter with symptoms...
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    may not be painful, thus often become infected. Those who have had poliomyelitis are also prone because of circulatory problems, especially in the legs...
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    spinal cord. Anterior horn diseases include spinal muscular atrophy, poliomyelitis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Brazis, Paul W.; Masdeu, Joseph C...
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    ruminants. There are four ongoing programs, targeting the human diseases poliomyelitis (polio), yaws, dracunculiasis (Guinea worm), and malaria. Five more...
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    mortality rates increased significantly. Smallpox, typhus, plague, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria were eradicated by 1981. The Mongolian Red Cross Society...
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  • this may present with flaccid paralysis. Included in AFP's list are poliomyelitis (polio), transverse myelitis, Guillain–Barré syndrome, enteroviral encephalopathy...
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  • 1, poliomyelitis. Osseous: hyperparathyroidism, thalassemia, Melnick–Needles syndrome. Other causes of superior rib notching include: poliomyelitis, osteogenesis...
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    English ancestry. As a child, he had rheumatic fever, hepatitis, and poliomyelitis. Sutherland and his family lived in a farmhouse in Lakeside, New Brunswick...
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  • created the Global Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis (commonly known as the Global Certification Commission or GCC) in 1995...
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    was heavily involved in production and distribution of Jonas Salk's poliomyelitis (polio) vaccine. In 1954, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis...
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  • her classmate Julien (one of whose legs is congenitally paralysed by poliomyelitis) in a barn of the house where he lives with his parents. She is instructed...
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    children's vaccine that protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, haemophilus B, and hepatitis B, which is used in more than 90 countries...
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