Polio-Like Manifestation of Powassan Virus Infection with Anterior Horn Cell Involvement, Canada

Authors :: Elizabeth B. Pringle
James I. Brooks
Christopher Picheca
Vignan Yogendrakumar
Jocelyn Zwicker
Carlos Torres
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 25, Iss 8, Pp 1609-1611 (2019), Emerging Infectious Diseases
Publication Year :: 2019
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019.
Abstract: Evidence of spinal cord involvement in Powassan virus infection is largely limited to mouse models. We report a case of a polio-like illness caused by Powassan virus infection in a 62-year-old man in Canada. Magnetic resonance imaging showed T2 hyperintensities in the anterior horns of the cervical spinal cord.

Subjects :: Male
Pathology
Epidemiology
vector-borne infections
Spinal cord involvement
lcsh:Medicine
0302 clinical medicine
Anterior Horn Cell
tick-borne
Medicine
magnetic resonance imaging
030212 general & internal medicine
Powassan virus
medicine.diagnostic_test
biology
Middle Aged
Poliomyelitis
Infectious Diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
arboviruses
anterior horn cells
meningitis/encephalitis
Symptom Assessment
Encephalitis, Tick-Borne
encephalitis viruses
Microbiology (medical)
Canada
medicine.medical_specialty
030231 tropical medicine
Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Diagnosis, Differential
03 medical and health sciences
Research Letter
Encephalitis Viruses
Humans
viruses
lcsh:RC109-216
Electromyography
business.industry
lcsh:R
Polio-like Manifestation of Powassan Virus Infection with Anterior Horn Cell Involvement, Canada
Magnetic resonance imaging
biology.organism_classification
Spinal cord
medicine.disease
Hyperintensity
arbovirus
business
poliomyelitis

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