A new epidemiologic and laboratory classification system for paralytic poliomyelitis cases

R.W. Sutter, E.W. Brink, S.L. Cochi, O.M. Kew, W.A. Orenstein, R.J. Biellik and A.R. Hinman

American Journal of Public Health, 1989, vol. 79, issue 4, 495-498

Abstract: An epidemiologic classification of paralytic poliomyelitis cases (ECPPC) has been in use in the United States since 1976. In 1985, this classification system was reviewed because of recent changes in the epidemiology of paralytic poliomyelitis and improved laboratory capability to definitively characterize poliovirus strains. An alternative classification system was devised, the epidemiologic and laboratory classification of paralytic polio cases (ELCPPC), that incorporated virus isolation and strain characterization with epidemiologic information. Reported paralytic poliomyelitis cases for 1980-86 were classified by both the ECPPC and the ELCPPC classification systems. The new ELCPPC system classified 91 per cent of the reported cases as vaccine-associated, while the ECPPC system classified only 71 per cent of the reported cases as vaccine-associated. The proposed classification system provides more specific and useful information particularly concerning vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis.

Date: 1989
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