Vital Signs: Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Confirmed Acute Flaccid Myelitis, United States, 2018

Published on August 6, 2020

This report describes symptoms, physical findings, test and imaging results, and hospitalization data of patients with confirmed acute flaccid myelitis during 2018.

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