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MDPI, Neurology International, 1(7), 2015

DOI: 10.4081/ni.2015.5452

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Previous acute polio and post-polio syndrome: recognizing the pathophysiology for the establishment of rehabilitation programs

Journal article published in 2015 by Marco Orsini, Jano Alves de Souza, Arthur de Sá Ferreira, Marcos Rg de Freitas, Marco Antonio Araújo Leite, Arthur De Sá Ferreira, Silmar Teixeira ORCID, Victor Hugo Bastos, Marcos R. G. De Freitas, Acary Bulle Oliveira
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Abstract

Previous acute poliomyelitis (PAP) can be defined as an endemic human disease caused by an enterovirus of worldwide distribution, which compromises the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord. Poliovirus has infected and victimized thousands of people all over the world. Only after the development of the inactivated virus vaccine by Jonas Salk, in 1955, and then with the attenuated virus vaccine, by Albert Bruce Sabin, in 1961, we saw a reduction in the number of poliomyelitis cases in the world.