Acute Disseminated Myelitis
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis Outbreak.
Investigators from the University School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, report an outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) occurring in 2014-2015 in several States and reported to the CDC.
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1894
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.1744.1174