Enteroviral meningitis and concurrent peripheral motor axonal polyneuropathy.
Enteroviral infections can cause acute flaccid paralysis resulting from anterior myelitis, but the occurrence of axonal polyneuropathy is not well described. We report an 8-year-old boy who presented with symmetric, ascending flaccid paralysis and was diagnosed with concurrent echovirus type 9 viral meningitis.
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, USA.
Daniel E
DE
Dulek
Peter D
PD
Donofrio
James J
JJ
Sejvar
Kathryn M
KM
Edwards
D002648:Child; D004459:Echovirus 9 / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004457:Echovirus Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008587:Meningitis, Viral / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D011115:Polyneuropathies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology