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Table 2 Diagnoses of cases linked between the national AFP database and ANZPIC Registry, 2005–2008

From: Potential for the Australian and New Zealand paediatric intensive care registry to enhance acute flaccid paralysis surveillance in Australia: a data-linkage study

AFP Diagnosis

Total

Guillain-Barré syndrome

19

Transverse myelitis

6

Spinal cord injury1

4

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis

3

Cord compression

2

Infant botulism

2

Spinal muscular atrophy

2

Tick bite paralysis

2

Leigh's encephalopathy

1

Spinal cord lesion (traumatic myelopathy)

1

Total

42

  1. 1 Four cases of ‘spinal cord injury’ were classified by the Polio Expert Panel but do not fulfil the strict interpretation of the WHO AFP case definition.