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Neurology Today:
20 August 2015 - Volume 15 - Issue 16 - p 8?9
doi: 10.1097/01.NT.0000471334.36992.e2
Case Definition Expands, Surveillance Increases, But Mystery Remains about Cause of Acute Flaccid Myelitis Outbreak
Hurley, Dan
ARTICLE IN BRIEF
In preparation for the possibility that the acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) outbreak could return in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expanding their case definition to include adults. A handful of sentinel surveillance sites have been selected to actively look for early cases, and radiologic records of unexplained paralysis cases from the past decade are being studied to determine whether AFM was occurring earlier than previously recognized...
Neurology Today:
20 August 2015 - Volume 15 - Issue 16 - p 8?9
doi: 10.1097/01.NT.0000471334.36992.e2
Case Definition Expands, Surveillance Increases, But Mystery Remains about Cause of Acute Flaccid Myelitis Outbreak
Hurley, Dan
ARTICLE IN BRIEF
In preparation for the possibility that the acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) outbreak could return in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expanding their case definition to include adults. A handful of sentinel surveillance sites have been selected to actively look for early cases, and radiologic records of unexplained paralysis cases from the past decade are being studied to determine whether AFM was occurring earlier than previously recognized...