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Polio is an acute infectious disease caused by the poliovirus and characterized by fever, motor paralysis, and atrophy of skeletal muscles often with permanent disability and deformity and marked by inflammation of nerve cells in the anterior gray matter in each lateral half of the spinal cord -- called also infantile paralysis

 
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Disease: Polio
Author(s): Marshall Mcbean A, Thoms ML, Albrecht P, Cuthie JC, Bernier R
Title: Serologic Response To Oral Polio Vaccine And Enhanced-Potency Inactivated Polio Vaccines
Publication: American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 128, No. 3
Date: 1988
Subject: Vaccine-General
Link:
File: McBean 1988 AJE p. 615.pdf
 
 
Disease: Polio
Author(s): Salk J
Title: One-Dose Immunization Against Paralytic Poliomyelitis Using a Noninfectious Vaccine
Publication: Review of Infectious Diseases vol. 6, Supplement 2
Date: 1984
Subject: Vaccine-General
Link:
File: Salk 1984 RID p. S444.pdf
 
 


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