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Poliovirus Infection, Nonparalytic
2010 Case Definition

Poliovirus Infection, Nonparalytic
2010 Case Definition
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NOTE: A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient’s health needs.

Case Classification

Confirmed

Any person without symptoms of paralytic poliomyelitis in whom a poliovirus isolate was identified in an appropriate clinical specimen, with confirmatory typing and sequencing performed by the CDC Poliovirus Laboratory, as needed.

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Last Reviewed: April 16, 2021
Source: Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology