A rare cause of acute flaccid paralysis: Human coronaviruses

Turgay C., Emine T., Ozlem K., Muhammet S. P., Haydar A. T.

JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC NEUROSCIENCES, cilt.10, sa.3, ss.280-281, 2015 (ESCI, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 10 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.4103/1817-1745.165716
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC NEUROSCIENCES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.280-281
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Acute flaccid paralysis, child, coronavirus 229E, coronavirus OC43, INFECTIONS
  • Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is a life-threatening clinical entity characterized by weakness in the whole body muscles often accompanied by respiratory and bulbar paralysis. The most common cause is Gullian-Barre syndrome, but infections, spinal cord diseases, neuromuscular diseases such as myasthenia gravis, drugs and toxins, periodic hypokalemic paralysis, electrolyte disturbances, and botulism should be considered as in the differential diagnosis. Human coronaviruses (HCoVs) cause common cold, upper and lower respiratory tract disease, but in the literature presentation with the lower respiratory tract infection and AFP has not been reported previously. In this study, pediatric case admitted with lower respiratory tract infection and AFP, who detected for HCoV 229E and OC43 co-infection by the real-time polymerase chain reaction, has been reported for the first time.