Acute flaccid paralysis

1996 - 2026 - Current

Marina I. Salvadori, MD, FRCPC, Senior Medical Advisor, Infectious Diseases Program Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada; [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] 

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One-time surveys

• Acute flaccid paralysis (2004)

CPSP Highlights

• CPSP 2014 Results: What have we learned?

  Paediatr Child Health 2015;20(8):435–6

• Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance: The need for ruling out polio infection

  Paediatr Child Health 2015;20(6):309–10

• Poliomyelitis – are Canadians still at risk?

  Paediatr Child Health 2007;12(8):708

• CPSP 2002 Results: What have we learned?

  Paediatr Child Health 2003;8(7):447

• Unravelling an acute flaccid paralysis event

  Paediatr Child Health 2002;7(7):441

• Reaching the target for global polio eradication – almost there

  Paediatr Child Health 2002;7(9):616

• Don’t ‘pooh-pooh’ stool cultures for surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis

  Paediatr Child Health 2000;5(8):454

Published papers

• Acute flaccid paralysis

  Acute flaccid myelitis in Canada, 2018 to 2019. Dickson C, Ho Mi Fane B, Squires SG. Can Commun Dis Rep 2020;46(10):349–53. doi: 10.14745/ccdr.v46i10a07

• Guillain-Barré syndrome after immunization in Canadian children (1996–2012)

  Top KA, Desai S, Moore D, Law BJ, Vaudry W, Halperin SA, Bettinger JA for members of the Canadian Immunization Monitoring Program Active. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2015;34(12):1411–3

• The polio eradication endgame: Why immunization and continued surveillance is critical

  Booth TF, Grudeski E, McDermid A, Rotondo J. CCDR 2015;41(10):233–40. www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/ccdr-rmtc/15vol41/dr-rm41-10/ar-03-eng.php

• Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance: The need for ruling out polio infection

  Rotondo J, Desai S, Pless R, Ahmad R, Squires S, Booth TF. Paediatr Child Health 2015;20(6):309–10   

  PMCID: PMC4578471

• Performance of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance compared to WHO standards

  Desai S, Smith T, Thorley BR, Grenier D, Dickson N, Altpeter E; SPSU Committee, Sabbe M, Elliott E, Zurynski Y. J Paediatr Child Health 2015;51(2):209–14. doi:10.1111/jpc.12691. Epub 2014 Jul 30

• AFP surveillance in Canada

  Macey J, Lipskie T. Pan American Health Organization Immunization Newsletter, Apr 2007;XXIX(2):1-3

• Protocol for the investigation of acute flaccid paralysis and suspected paralytic poliomyelitis

  Bentsi-Enchill A. Paediatr Child Health 1997;2(6):409-12

Resource articles

• Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance – Stool cultures (2001)

Presentations

• Guillain-Barré syndrome after immunization in Canadian children (1996–2012)

  Top KA, Desai S, Moore D, Law BJ, Vaudry W, Halperin SA, Bettinger JA, for members of the Immunization Monitoring Program ACTive. Canadian Immunization Conference, Ottawa, in December 2014 (poster)

• Guillain-Barré syndrome after immunization in Canadian children (1996–2012)

  Top KA, Desai S, Moore D, Law BJ, Vaudry W, Halperin SA, Bettinger JA, for members of IMPACT. Vaccine and ISV Congress, Philadelphia, in October 2014 (poster)

• Does active surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis by the International Network of Paediatric Surveillance Units meet WHO standards?

  Smith T, Desai S, Grenier D, Altpeter E, Beeli D, Dickson N, Thorley B, Sabbe M, Elliot E, Zurynski Y. Canadian Immunization Conference, Vancouver, in December 2012 (poster)

• A comparison of the World Health Organization’s Quality Assurance Criteria for Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance in Canada to other countries

  Helferty M, Mitschke M. Canadian Immunization Conference, Quebec City, in December 2010 (poster)

• Ensuring our polio-free status: active acute flaccid paralysis surveillance (AFP) in Canada

  Garner MJ, Macey JF, Desai S, Grenier D. Canadian Immunization Conference, Toronto, in December 2008 (poster)