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Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis, literally meaning gray spinal cord


inflammation
It is a viral infection
There are three types of poliovirus and many
strains of each type
It is contagious: usually spread from person to
person.
Pathophysiology

Horn motor cells may be damaged by viral


multiplication or toxic byproducts of the virus or
indirectly by ischemia, edema, and hemorrhage
in the glial tissues.

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