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First Enterovirus 71 case in Northern Brazil presents with acute flaccid motor deficiency.
Case Report (n=1)
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This report documents the first isolation of enterovirus 71 in the Northern region of Brazil in a child with acute flaccid paralysis.
Alerts clinicians to EV71 in Northern Brazil AFP cases; leaves open whether endemic or sporadic.
Enterovirus 71 (EV-71) has been associated to cases of neurological disease in many countries including Brazil. This virus has now been reported from three of the five Brazilian regions. Our study relates the findings concerning to the first isolate of this virus in Northern region of Brazil. A 15-month old female patient, from the rural zone of the municipality of Santana do Araguaia in southern Pará state was admitted at the hospital with acute, flaccid, asymmetric and ascending motor deficiency, located in the right lower limb. Stools samples from this child were inoculated in RD cells and was isolated an EV-71. We plan to sequence our strain and compare it to other isolates in Brazil. Differences at the molecular level can explain why EV-71 strains circulating in other continents, such as Asia, appear to be more virulent.
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Lamarão et al. (2003) conducted a case report in Acute flaccid motor deficiency associated with Enterovirus 71 (n=1). Enterovirus 71 (EV-71) infection was evaluated on Isolation of EV-71. Enterovirus 71 was isolated for the first time in Northern Brazil from a 15-month-old female presenting with acute flaccid motor deficiency.
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