Poliomyelitis-like illness associated with asthma.
A 10-year-old girl with a combination of paralytic disease, resembling poliomyelitis, and asthma is described. The girl developed neurological symptoms 5 days after a severe attack of asthma. No aetiology to the flaccid paralysis could be demonstrated although Coxsackie B5 virus was isolated from a stool. A similar poliomyelitis-like illness associated with asthma has previously been reported in 13 cases from Australia and the UK.
D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D029822:Enterovirus B, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010243:Paralysis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D013577:Syndrome