Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53757#.VNHOgyzQrzE Author(s) Omesh Kumar Bharti Affiliation(s) Corporation Health Officer, Municipal Corporation, Shimla, India . ABSTRACT Background: While we are inching towards global eradication of polio, the paralysis due to non-polio viruses (NPEV) poses greater challenge. Factors responsible for causing Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) were studied in 3596 AFP patients in 64 districts of Uttar-Pradesh, India, to observe indirect relationship of AFP with wild polio as well as NPEV. A recent study suggests the need to investigate polio virus negative but NPEV positive AFP cases. Methods: The lab results of the stool samples of these children were line listed and analysed to observe the association of various factors with respect to presence of paralysis on 60 follow-up days. Taking zero OPV dose AFP cases as a biological base, we studied th...
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