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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1976 22(6):294-303; doi:10.1093/tropej/22.6.294
© 1976 by Oxford University Press
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Paralytic Diseases of Childhood in the Tropics

NOËL GUILLOZET, M.D., F.A.A.P, Associate Professor of Pediatrics

The University Centre for the Health Sciences, University of Cameroon, Yaoundi, Cameroon, Lecturer on Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Lecturer on Child Health. School of Public Health, Hanard University, Director, The Harvard University Project, U.C.H.S.

Paralytic diseases of childhood in the western world are increasingly limited to those emanating from birth defects, trauma and familial disease. In tropical Africa these are minor causes of handicap in the face of severe and endemic poliomyelitis, bacterial meningitis and measles. The neurological complications of sickle cell disease, parasitic infestation, dietary toxins and exotic acute illnesses rarely seen in the United States produce many incapacitating handicaps for which both adequate care and rehabilitative facilities are usually lacking.


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