Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology (Jan 2014)

An Unusual Case of Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis

  • S Desai,
  • T Diener,
  • BJ-K Tan,
  • NJ Lowry,
  • C Talukdar,
  • WM Chrusch,
  • S Wiebe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/378320
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 4
pp. 227 – 228

Abstract

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The present article reports a case involving an immunocompetent, previously well child who, despite two previous doses of inactivated poliovirus vaccine, developed severe flaccid paralysis consistent with polio after receiving oral polio vaccine.