Poliomyelitis

Alternate Name:

Test:

Throat or faecal virology (+), specific antibodies(RT), WCC (N or H), CSF cells (H), CSF protein (H), CSF sugar (N)

Sign:

Peripheral reflexes, ataxia, muscular atrophy,fasciculation, heel-knee test, hypotonia, nose-fin­ger test, flaccid paralysis

Dd:

Aseptic meningitis, Guillain-Barre syn., tick or snake bite paralysis, mumps, influenza, encepha­litis, acute polyneuritis, porphyria, hysteria, spinal trauma or tumour, rabies, poisons (e.g. arsenic)

Phys:

Contagious viral disease of CNS producing symp­toms ranging from transient malaise to flaccid pa­ralysis and death