A Rare Etiology for Ascending Paralysis in an Infant.

J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc

Department of Pediatrics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Published: October 2022


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An 11-month-old male infant with ascending paralysis had an unremarkable initial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis and imaging. Progressive neurological symptoms resulted in repeated CSF sampling, microscopy, and plasma microbial cell-free DNA next-generation sequencing analysis, that in combination with epidemiology, confirmed the diagnosis.

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