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This child is displaying a deformity of her right lower extremity due to polio caused by the poliovirus, an enterovirus member.

After initial oropharyngeal inoculation, and multiplication, the virus enters the bloodstream, thereby, finding its way to the central nervous system, and infecting the motor neurons of the anterior horn of the spinal cord and within the brain itself.

Creation Date: 1995 Content Providers(s): CDC source: http://phil.cdc.gov (image id: 5578)

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enfant avec des séquelles de la polio - domaine public -

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