Acute poliomyelitis, often called polio, is an infectious disease caused by any of the three serotypes of poliovirus, an enterovirus in the Picornaviridae family of +ssRNA viruses. Only a small proportion of poliovirus infections results in paralytic poliomyelitis due to the viral invasion to the central nervous system.
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral infections of the central nervous system
1C81 Acute poliomyelitis
H00376 Acute poliomyelitis
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
H00376 Acute poliomyelitis
