A Rare Etiology for Ascending Paralysis in an Infant

Overview

Journal J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Pediatrics

Date 2022 Jul 8

PMID 35802023

Authors

Keisuke Abe

Chanel Casamina

Natascha Ching

Keith K Abe

Marian Melish

Karen S Thompson

Asim A Ahmed

Prashant J Purohit

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Abstract

An 11-month-old male infant with ascending paralysis had an unremarkable initial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis and imaging. Progressive neurological symptoms resulted in repeated CSF sampling, microscopy, and plasma microbial cell-free DNA next-generation sequencing analysis, that in combination with epidemiology, confirmed the diagnosis.

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