differential diagnosis
Last reviewed 01/2018
differential diagnosis
Other causes of acute flaccid paralysis:
- due to other infections
- enteroviruses - includes coxsackievirus A7 and enterovirus 71
- tickborne encephalitis
- flaviviruses - includes Japanese encephalitis and, more recently, West Nile virus
- diphtheria
- botulism
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- acute inflammatory polyneuropathy
- acute transverse myelitis
- acute spinal cord compression
- myasthenia gravis
- spinal cord trauma and infarction
- lead and other heavy metal poisoning (1)
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